• strike up

• shack up with him

• make a play for it

• look up to him

• pick up the tab

• look up

• his cup of tea

• make a point of

• make a pig's ear of it

• stick up for him

• make up for it

• make a pig of oneself

• make a play for

• pluck up courage

• prick up one's ears

• a storm in a teacup

• make up leeway

• stock up on it

• make up to him

• make a practice of doing it

• make up one's mind

• make a pass at him

• strike a pose

• pack up

• take up with him

• make a point of doing it

• speak up

• there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip

• bark up the wrong tree

• take up the cudgels

• make a pass at