work up to
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To slowly prepare yourself to do something difficult or scary.
"She had been working up to asking for a pay rise for months before she finally knocked on her manager's door."
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I can work up to it.
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and then increasingly work up to foreground elements.
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kind of try to work up to saying it
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a finite finishing point of where to work up to.
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And eventually work up to what you do and I do,