build up to (something)
сводиться к (о ситуации)
As a matter of fact, things were building up to be a rather unpleasant situation.
Другие идиомы:
- build up (someone or something)
- build (something) to order
- build a case (against someone)
- build a fire under (someone)
- back the wrong horse
- badger (someone)
- bark up the wrong tree
- best-laid plans of mice and men
- bet on the wrong horse
- black sheep of the family
- bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
- bull in a china shop
- buy a pig in a poke
- by shank's mare
- bat out of hell