Give an elevating talk for flirtatious purposes? (4,2)
I believe the answer is:
chat up
'give' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with communicating as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'elevating talk for flirtatious purposes?' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'talk' could be 'chat' (chat can mean to talk) and 'chat' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'up' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'an' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chat up that I've seen before include "Flirt with (someone)" , "Engage (someone) in flirtatious talk" , "Talk in romantic terms" , "Engage (someone) in flirtatious conversation" , "Woo verbally" .)