strike up a conversation

to start a conversation (with someone). I struck up an interesting conversation with someone on the bus yesterday. It's easy to strike up a conversation with someone when you're traveling.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ljuben	-	Macedonian
Trista	TRIS-tə	English
Barrow	['bærəu]
Patrik	-	Swedish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Hungarian
Ion (1)	YON (Romanian)	Basque, Romanian
Xerxes	ZURK-seez (English)	History