beam (someone/something) up

to send someone or something into space as waves of energy.

Mission Control beamed up pictures of the spaceship taken from the space station.

The ads show aliens beaming up a cow.

Etymology: based on the literal meaning of beam (= a line of light) and made popular by the TV show "Star Trek," in which people would ask to be transported by saying beam me up

• make a pig of
• make a pig of yourself
• make a pig's ear of
• make a pig's ear of doing something
• make a pig's ear of something
• make a pitch for
• make a pitch for something
• make a play for
• make a play for someone
• make a play for something
• make a point of
• make a point of doing something
• make a poor fist of
• make a poor fist of doing something
• make a poor fist of something
• make a practice of
• make a practice of doing something
• make a production of
• make a production of something
• make a production out of
• make a production out of something
• make a quick buck
• make a rod for own back
• make a rod for your own back
• make a run at