if a piece of music strikes up, someone starts playing it
to start something such as a relationship or conversation with someone in an informal way
to start to play or sing a piece of music
And it was getting really dark outside --- and she'd have to strike up a conversation in case they turned nasty.
Anna had struck up a conversation with a girl at the pool.
Irena's clock, acquired from the Hermitage because she said it would remind them that it was Time to strike up the band.
The announcer called out, ‘Strike up the band!’
The barman seemed to have already struck up a friendship with Jane.
The musicians struck up and people began to dance.
They struck up with Happy Birthday to You.
We could hear the band striking up the bridal march.
You pay four hundred dollars to get into a bordello, and you can't strike up a conversation.
and strike up casual conversations in dimly lit, anonymous suffering -- as much as?
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