creep up on somebody

"Anything will be better than waiting here for whatever is creeping up on us."

The 49-year-old thought his age was creeping up on him.

You could say this thing crept up on me from behind.

BY 2350, however, age was beginning to creep up on him.

He was the only person who could creep up on me like that.

Brown is creeping up on us, take my word for it.

And I knew all these things were creeping up on me.

Time certainly has a way of creeping up on you.

It had been creeping up on him this last hour.

It crept up on me, sort of like a cold you keep trying to hold off.