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
Pier	PYER (Italian), PEER (Dutch)	Italian, Dutch
Yaffa	-	Hebrew
Cathleen	['kæθli:n]
Martina	mahr-TEE-nah (Italian, Spanish, Dutch), mahr-TEEN-ə (English)	German, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Slovene, English, Swedish, Dutch, Ancien
Rosalie	ro-za-LEE (French), RO-zə-lee (English)	French, German, Dutch, English
Jarmila	-	Czech, Slovak