grub up
v. phr.— «Under a scheme to start in August 2008, if EU agriculture ministers agree, subsidies to uproot vineyards—or “grub up,” in EU parlance—would fall gradually each year in a carrot-and-stick approach to promote early “take-up.”» —“France attacks planting ban in EU wine plan as ‘madness’” by Jeremy Smith in Brussels, Belgium NDTV Profit.com July 17, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Is there a term for words that simply feel good as you form them in your mouth and say them? Linguists sometimes speak of mouthfeel, an expression borrowed from the food world. They also talk about phonaesthetics, the study of the sensuous...