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Warm up

verb

Run until the normal working temperature is reached.

Become more friendly or open.

Get warm or warmer. Synonym: warm.

Cause to do preliminary exercises so as to stretch the muscles.

Make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity. Synonyms: limber up, loosen up.

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"Warm up" Quotes from Famous Books

... to buy me a little tea," whined the old man; "seems as if that would go right to the spot, and warm up ...

— The Children's Book of Christmas Stories • Various

... blue eyes was so rare now-a-days! And the Colonel too, if the Colonel would but give him a few sittings, the grey uniform of the Bengal Cavalry, the silver lace, the little bit of red ribbon just to warm up the picture! It was seldom, Mr. Smee declared, that an artist could get such an opportunity for colour. But no cajoleries could induce the Colonel to sit to any artist save one. There hangs in Clive's room now, a head, painted at one sitting, of a ...

— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser

... stood up and laughed good-naturedly. "Go to bed and get up steam for to-morrer. When you see the whole collection you'll warm up your ideas. You're a terrible plucky kid to trust your own soul on a trifling little raft like this religion of yours. You better not overload it with more souls, though; the risk's ...

— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock

... warm up to now, and the snow may fall any time. Never a winter goes by without it, and then you will be very thankful you are here, and not outside! But I dare say it is quiet for a young thing like you,' she added, 'and I have invited my neighbour ...

— The Olive Fairy Book • Various

... conversational success. He evidently did not enter into the spirit of the artist's remarks. He said most people got off at that point and walked to warm up, and asked Trenton if he would not like ...

— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr

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