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tap up

To make a specific approach to a person considered to be suitable for a professional position.
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In earlier years, the intelligence services would often recruit agents by tapping them up.

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Submitted on July 07, 2010

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tap upto make an approach to a player, under contract to another club, in order to attempt to negotiate a transfer
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