Apr 15, 2026 · 16 min · 9 segments
Let's do another of my Key Takeaways episode. This is where I take learnings from recent client sessions I think you will find very helpful to feel more confident with business english vocabulary…
I was in a session with a client yesterday, and all of a sudden they were like, "Oh, is it a problem came up? A problem came out? Oh, and what about come up with? How do I use that?" I thought this is an excellent topic to bring onto the podcast because I'm sure that you may have had this doubt as well, and it's really important for you to be able to distinguish these phrasal verbs because they're ones that come up on a daily basis if you have to use English all the time.
By no means is this all the phrasal verbs with come that you're ever gonna hear in the workplace, but I'll take you through it and explain the meaning and some key points about each one.
The key point to get across first of all is, yes, all of these phrasal verbs have the same verb, come up, come out, come up with, but they all mean totally different things.
But don't worry, I'm gonna help you make it make sense and help you feel more confident with this.
But the key point is what on earth does it mean and how can you use it? You probably heard your colleague say something like, "God, we really need to, like, come up with a plan," "But I don't know.
I'm just finding it really hard to come up with an idea about what we can do to try to sort this out." From the context you might be able to understand, but here we're in the world of creation, generation.
Really natural collocations in a business context just to get you started, to come up with an idea, to come up with a plan.
Also, when you have a three-part phrasal verb, come up with, those three parts are always together.
I was in a session with a client yesterday, and all of a sudden they were like, "Oh, is it a problem came up? A problem came out? Oh, and what about come up with? How do I use that?" I thought this is an excellent topic to bring onto the podcast because I'm sure that you may have had this doubt as well, and it's really important for you to be able to distinguish these phrasal verbs because they're ones that come up on a daily basis if you have to use English all the time.
By no means is this all the phrasal verbs with come that you're ever gonna hear in the workplace, but I'll take you through it and explain the meaning and some key points about each one.
The key point to get across first of all is, yes, all of these phrasal verbs have the same verb, come up, come out, come up with, but they all mean totally different things.
But don't worry, I'm gonna help you make it make sense and help you feel more confident with this.
But the key point is what on earth does it mean and how can you use it? You probably heard your colleague say something like, "God, we really need to, like, come up with a plan," "But I don't know.
I'm just finding it really hard to come up with an idea about what we can do to try to sort this out." From the context you might be able to understand, but here we're in the world of creation, generation.
Really natural collocations in a business context just to get you started, to come up with an idea, to come up with a plan.
Also, when you have a three-part phrasal verb, come up with, those three parts are always together.
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