![]() It was just too much, some stuff had to be delayed or simply not done. You could not-you simply could not do everything you wanted to do, or everything other people wanted you to do. Working in a job like mine was all about balancing priorities. And there were times I wanted a topic to come up in the meeting, and there were definitely times I did not want a topic to come up in the meeting. I used to have more meetings than I care to contemplate, back when I worked in business consulting. You can also use this with specific types of conversations. Topics, people, places, things-if you talk about them, they come up in the conversation. ![]() So that’s how you use it with the word “conversation.” Your name came up in the conversation, that new song JR picked last week came up in the conversation, my plans to buy more plants for my apartment came up in conversation, whatever. I’m not a big Avatar fan, but nonetheless Avatar came up in conversation between JR and me. I told JR that some movie theaters here in Mexico devoted the whole theater-every screen, all day!-to showing Avatar 2 when it came out. The new Avatar movie came up in conversation with JR and me, recently. What else might have come up in a conversation among friends? A recent popular movie might come up in conversation. We talked about how you just got a new job and we’re curious how it’s going. Your name came up in the conversation: that means your name became part of the conversation. ![]() We were curious how your new job is going.” In fact, your name came up in the conversation, too. You’re telling her later about the night, you’re telling her about what you talked about. So you’re out with friends, but you have one friend who’s not there. When a topic, when a person, when a place, when a thing, becomes part of the conversation, we say, it “comes up” in the conversation. There will be topics, there will be people, there will be places, all involved in the conversation. But imagine you have a conversation with friends. It’s a phrasal verb “come up,” and we use it to talk about when a subject, or a topic, or a person, or a thing, becomes part of some type of conversation. Today’s expression is extremely useful-you’re going to use this all the time, now that you know it.
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