sidle up

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sidle up (to someone or something)

to move close to someone or something cautiously or furtively; to move closer to someone or something gradually. Tex sidled up to Dolly and said howdy in a soft, shy voice. Dolly sidled up and picked the cowboy's pocket.

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And while the men withdrew money they would sidle up to them, and once back in the car they would pinch their bankcards, and using pilfered PIN codes they would tap the victims' accounts. Sexy scamster trio seduce Manhattan men off their ATM cards by Asian News International Byline: DENISE ROBERTSON A FEW years ago, it took a brave man to sidle up to a newsagents counter and pay for a Valentine card. NEW MEN OR JUST PLAIN FRIGHTENED? Column by The Journal (Newcastle, England) I would expect Obama to try to deal with Europe as one entity rather than sidle up to London, Paris and Berlin separately. It'll be his way from now on; ALE TO THE CHIEF: UNITED MATES OF ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)			Shut up! Shut your cake hole! shuttle shuttle diplomacy shuttle from shy shy away shy away from shy of sic on sick sick as a dog sick at heart sick in bed sick of sick to death sick to death of sick to stomach side side against side by side side with sideline sidle sidle away sidle up sift sift from sift out of sift through sigh sigh about sigh for sight sight better sight for sore eyes sight unseen sign sign away sign for sign in sign of the times sign off sign off on sign on sign on the dotted line sign out sign out of some place sign over sign own death warrant sign the pledge			Sidi Qasim Sidi Youssef Ben Ali Sidi-bel-Abbes Sidi-bel-Abbes Sidi-bel-Abbès Sidi-bel-Abbès SIDIAC Sidifni siding siding siding siding siding siding siding siding gauge siding shingle Siding Spring Observatory sidings sidings sidings Sidious-Palpatine Estrogen Brigade SIDIT Sidjakov, Berman, Gomez SIDK SIDL Sidlaw Hills sidle sidle sidle away sidle up sidled sidled sidles sidles Sidley Sidley Austin Sidley Austin Brown Wood sidling sidling sidlingly sidlingly SIDLTS SIDM SIDMA SIDMOD Sidmouth Sidmouth, Henry Addington, Viscount SIDMS SIDN SiDNA Sidney Sidney Sidney Altman Sidney Breese Sidney Caesar Sidney Centre for the Foundations of Science Sidney Chapman Sidney Chayefsky

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