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rustle up
verb
to prepare (a meal, snack, etc) rapidly, esp at short notice
to forage for and obtain
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Idioms and Phrases
Get together food or some other needed item with some effort, as in I don't know what we have but I'll rustle up a meal somehow, or You boys need to rustle up some wood for a campfire. The verb rustle here means “to assemble in a hurry.” [Late 1800s]
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He has just shy of a month to rustle up another rallying cry.
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“Let’s you and me rustle up some lunch.”
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“What do you think, Cat? Could we head back home and rustle up some hot chocolate for this crew?”
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She added doctors had little option but to discharge patients as they struggled to "rustle up" carers who were willing to risk their lives for minimum wage jobs.
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The musical’s producers — including Love Productions, owners of the madly popular television series in which everyday contestants rustle up strudels and rye buns and cherry jam roly-polys — tried several songwriters.
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