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Find or round up something, as in I'll have to scrounge up another microphone for today's speaker. [Colloquial; c. 1900]
American Heritage Idioms
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Phrase(s): scrounge someone or something up Fig. to find someone or something somewhere; to dig someone or something up. • I can’t think of anyone just now, but I will scrounge someone up. • They scrounged up an escort for Liz.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs