COOK (SOMETHING) UP


Meaning of COOK (SOMETHING) UP in English

cook something ↔ up phrasal verb ( see also ↑ cook )

1 . to prepare food, especially quickly:

Every night he cooked up a big casserole.

2 . informal to invent an excuse, reason, plan etc, especially one that is slightly dishonest or unlikely to work:

the plan that Graham and Dempster had cooked up

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.