scrape up an acquaintance

Make an effort to become familiar with someone, especially for one's own benefit. For example, He scraped up an acquaintance with the college president in hopes of getting his son admitted . This term uses scrape in the sense of "gather with difficulty" (also see under scare up). Originally put as scrape acquaintance, it was first recorded in 1600.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Raelyn	RAY-lin	English (Rare)
Nedjeljko	NED-ye-lyko	Croatian
Gracjan	-	Polish
Vasudha	-	Indian, Hindi
Teresa	te-RE-sah (Spanish, Polish), te-RE-zah (Italian, German), TE-re-sah (Finnish), tə-REE-sə (English), tə-REE-zə (English)	Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Finnish, Polish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English
Mclean	[mək'lein]