dream up

When I’m dreaming up new oatmeal combinations, I start where any self-respecting hedonist would: the jam aisle of a fancy little corner store.

That is, a lot of people couldn’t actually afford to pay their mortgages the old-fashioned way, and so the lenders were dreaming up new instruments to justify handing them new money.

The makers of “Predator: Badlands” certainly had themselves a fine time dreaming up freakish sources of danger on a faraway planet.

The women dream up dissolute scenarios for themselves as they dance themselves into a frenzy and drop their facades.

Masli responded by dreaming up a ritual involving a sock that was set on fire in symbolic purgation of burdensome resentments.