What does come mean

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

come

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bill comes to sth (=is for that amount)

▪ The bill came to $60.

a book comes out (=it is published for the first time)

▪ Everyone was waiting for the new Harry Potter book to come out.

a breeze comes through/from etc sth

▪ The room was hot and no breeze came through the window.

a bus comes/arrives

▪ I waited and waited but the bus didn't come.

a button comes off sth

▪ A button has come off my skirt.

a case comes before a judge/court

▪ The case came before the federal courts.

a case comes to court/comes before the court

▪ The case came to court 21 months later.

a case comes to court/comes before the court

▪ The case came to court 21 months later.

a case comes/goes to court

▪ When the case finally came to court, they were found not guilty.

a case comes/goes to trial

▪ By the time her case went to trial, her story had changed.

a case goes/comes to trial

▪ If the case ever went to trial, he would probably lose.

a climax comes

▪ The climax came when the President ordered an air strike on the capital.

a dream comes true (=something you want happens)

▪ I’d always wanted to go to Africa and at last my dream came true.

a film is released/comes out (=it is made available for people to see)

▪ The film is due to come out in May.

a foretaste of things to come

▪ Two wins at the start of the season were a foretaste of things to come.

a letter comes/arrives

▪ A letter came for you today.

a mark comes off/out

▪ I can’t get this dirty mark to come out.

a migrant comes from/to a place

▪ A majority of the migrants had come from this region.

a mist comes down/in (=comes to a place)

▪ The mist came down like a curtain.

a nightmare comes true (=something bad that someone fears actually happens)

▪ The company's worst financial nightmare has now come true.

a noise comes from sth

▪ The noise seemed to be coming from the kitchen.

a party comes to power (=begins to be the government)

▪ The ruling party came to power in May 2001.

a regime comes to power

▪ He criticised European leaders for supporting a regime that came to power through violence.

a situation comes about (=it happens)

▪ I don’t know how this situation has come about.

a smell comes from somewhere (also a smell emanates from somewhereformal)

▪ A delicious smell of baking came from the kitchen.

▪ He was getting complaints about the smell emanating from his shop.

a sound comes from somewhere

▪ The sounds seemed to be coming from the study below.

a subject comes up (=people start talking about it)

▪ The subject of payment never came up.

a thought occurs to/comes to/strikes sb (=someone suddenly has a thought)

▪ The thought occurred to him that she might be lying.

a vacancy comes up (also a vacancy arises/occursformal) (= there is a vacancy)

▪ A vacancy has arisen on the committee.

an act comes into force

▪ Since the act came into force, all public buildings must have disabled access.

an announcement comes (=it happens)

▪ His announcement came after two days of peace talks.

an idea comes to sb (=someone suddenly thinks of an idea)

▪ The idea came to me while I was having a bath.

an issue comes up (also an issue arisesformal) (= people started to discuss it)

▪ The issue arose during a meeting of the Budget Committee.

an opportunity comes (along/up)

▪ We had outgrown our house when the opportunity came up to buy one with more land.

be in/go into/come out of hiding

▪ He went into hiding in 1973.

be/come close to the truth

▪ The book comes a little too close to the truth for their liking.

be/come under suspicion (=be thought to have probably done something wrong)

▪ He was still under suspicion of fraud.

be/come up to standard (=be good enough)

▪ Her work was not up to standard.

be/get/come home early

▪ Your father said he’d be home early.

blew...to kingdom come

▪ He left the gas on and nearly blew us all to kingdom come.

came after (=happened after it)

▪ People still remember the 1958 revolution and what came after.

came as something of

▪ The news came as something of a surprise.

came crashing down

▪ A large branch came crashing down.

came from far and wide (=came from many places)

▪ People came from far and wide to see the concert.

came in the shape of

▪ Help came in the shape of a $10,000 loan from his parents.

came into vogue

▪ Suntanning first came into vogue in the mid-1930s.

came loose (=became unattached)

▪ The driver had forgotten to fasten the safety chain and the trailer came loose.

came off the bench

▪ Simpson came off the bench to play in midfield.

came roaring back

▪ In the second half Leeds came roaring back with two goals in five minutes.

came running

▪ The children came running out of the house.

came straight out with it

▪ She came straight out with it and said she was leaving.

came to a close (=finished)

▪ The event came to a close with a disco.

came to naught (=failed)

▪ All their plans came to naught .

came to nought (=were not successful)

▪ Peace negotiations came to nought .

came to pieces (=broke into separate parts)

▪ The shower head just came to pieces in my hand.

came to the fore

▪ Environmental issues came to the fore in the 1980s.

came to visit

▪ I was really pleased that they came to visit me.

came under...control

▪ The whole of this area came under Soviet control after World War II.

came within an ace of

▪ The team came within an ace of winning the championship.

came...on the heels of

▪ The decision to buy Peters came hard on the heels of the club’s promotion to Division One.

come a long way (=developed a lot)

▪ Psychiatry has come a long way since the 1920s.

come any nearer

▪ I’m warning you – don’t come any nearer!

come around/round the bend

▪ Suddenly a motorbike came around the bend at top speed.

come as a blow to sb

▪ His sudden death came as a huge blow to us all.

come as a relief

▪ The court's decision came as a huge relief to Microsoft.

come as a shock (=be very unexpected)

▪ The collapse of the company came as a shock to us all.

come as a surprise (=be surprising)

▪ The announcement came as a surprise to most people.

come as no surprise (=not be surprising )

▪ It came as no surprise when Lester got the job.

come at a price (also come at a high price) (= involve suffering or a bad result)

▪ She won fame, but it came at a high price.

come back into fashion (=become fashionable again)

▪ Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.

come back to haunt

▪ an error that would come back to haunt them for years to come

come down with a cold (also go down with a cold British English)informal (= catch one)

▪ A lot of people go down with colds at this time of year.

come first/last etc in a race (also finish first/last etc in a race)

▪ She came third in the race.

come first/second/third etc in a competition

▪ Stuart came second in the swimming competition.

come for/to dinner

▪ Mark is coming over for dinner.

come for/to lunch (=come to someone's house for lunch)

▪ Can you come to lunch tomorrow?

come from a background

▪ Mark and I came from very similar backgrounds.

come from a different/the same mould (=be different from or similar to other things of the same type)

▪ He clearly comes from a different mould than his brother.

come in handy (=be useful)

▪ Take your swimming trunks with you – they might come in handy.

come in useful (=be useful)

▪ The extra income would come in useful.

come into bud (=start to produce buds)

come into conflict with sb

▪ Local people have often come into conflict with planning officials.

come into contact with sb (=meet or spend time with sb)

▪ It’s good to come into contact with people from different cultures.

come into existence (=start to exist)

▪ Pakistan came into existence as an independent country in 1947.

come into leaf (=start having leaves)

▪ The apple tree had finally come into leaf.

come into port

▪ We stood on the quay and watched the ships come into port.

come into possession of sth (=start having it)

▪ How did you come into possession of this document?

come into question (=start to be doubted)

▪ The special protection given to these animals has come into question in recent years.

come into sb's possession

▪ You have a duty not to disclose confidential information that comes into your possession.

come into view

▪ Suddenly the pyramids came into view.

come loose (=became loose)

▪ The screw has come loose.

come naturally (to sb) (=be easy for you to do because you have a natural ability)

▪ Speaking in public seems to come quite naturally to her.

come off a medication (=stop taking a medication)

▪ Coming off the medication made him more aggressive.

come off second best (=lose a game or competition, or not be as successful as someone else)

come off stage

▪ I came off stage last night and just collapsed in a heap.

come off/get off drugs (=stop taking drugs permanently)

▪ It was years before I was able to come off drugs.

come onto the market

▪ a revolutionary new drug that has just come onto the market

come out into the open

▪ She never let her dislike for him come out into the open.

come out of a coma (also emerge from a comaformal)

▪ Alice wanted to be there when he came out of his coma.

come out of...shell

▪ She’s started to come out of her shell a little.

come quietly

▪ Now are you gonna come quietly, or do I have to use force?

come to a climax

▪ Things came to a climax with a large protest march on June 30th.

come to a standstill/bring sth to a standstill

▪ Strikers brought production to a standstill.

come to an abrupt end/halt etc

▪ The bus came to an abrupt halt.

come to an end (=end)

▪ Arsenal’s ten-match unbeaten run came to an end with a 3–2 defeat at United.

come to power (=start being in control)

▪ Tony Blair came to power in 1997.

come to sb’s assistance (=help someone)

▪ One of her fellow passengers came to her assistance.

come to sb’s notice (=be noticed by someone)

▪ This problem first came to our notice last summer.

come to the boil (=begin to boil)

▪ She waited for the water to come to the boil.

come to the phone

▪ I’m sorry, she can’t come to the phone right now.

come to the wedding

▪ She wrote to say she couldn’t come to the wedding.

come to/arrive at a compromise

▪ The negotiations took place and they arrived at a compromise.

come to/arrive at/reach a conclusion (=decide something)

▪ I eventually came to the conclusion that I wanted to study law.

come to/bring to/reach fruition

▪ His proposals only came to fruition after the war.

▪ Many people have worked together to bring this scheme to fruition.

come together

▪ The Conference called on all good men to come together to resist socialism.

come to/reach a dead end

▪ The negotiations have reached a dead end.

come to/rise to/achieve prominence (as sth)

▪ She first came to prominence as an artist in 1989.

come under attack

▪ Camps in the south came under attack from pro-government forces.

come under criticism/come in for criticism (=be criticized)

▪ The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.

come under criticism/come in for criticism (=be criticized)

▪ The deal came under fierce criticism from other American airlines.

come under pressure

▪ The new Prime Minister has already come under pressure from the opposition to call an election.

come under scrutiny (=be examined)

▪ The cost and efficiency of the health care system has come under increasing scrutiny.

come under the heading of

▪ writers who might come under the heading of postmodern fiction writers

come undone

▪ One of these buttons has come undone.

come up for review (=be reviewed after a particular period of time has ended)

▪ His contract is coming up for review.

come up to/live up to sb's expectations (=be as good as someone hoped or expected)

▪ The match was boring, and didn't live up to our expectations at all.

come up with a design (=think of or suggest one)

▪ We asked the architect to come up with another design.

come up with a plan (=think of a plan)

▪ The chairman must come up with a plan to get the club back on its feet.

come up with a proposal (=think of one)

▪ The sales staff came up with an innovative proposal.

come up with a suggestion (=think of something to suggest)

▪ We’ve come up with five suggestions.

come up with an answer (=find a way of dealing with a problem)

▪ The government is struggling to come up with answers to our economic problems.

come up with an idea (=think of an idea)

▪ He’s always coming up with interesting ideas.

come up with/develop a theory

▪ These birds helped Darwin develop his theory of natural selection.

come up/down a ladder

▪ Dickson came up the ladder from the engine room.

come with instructions

▪ The tent comes with instructions on how to put it up.

come with/carry a guarantee

▪ The building work comes with a 30-year guarantee.

come/break out in a rash (=get a rash)

▪ My mother comes out in a rash if she eats seafood.

come/fall under the influence of sb/sth (=be influenced by someone or something)

▪ They had come under the influence of a religious sect.

come/fall within the scope of sth (=be included in it)

▪ Banks and building societies fall within the scope of the new legislation.

come/finish etc second

▪ I came second in the UK championships.

come/follow close on the heels of sth

▪ Yet another scandal followed close on the heels of the senator’s resignation.

come/get out of prison

▪ The boy just come out of prison after doing two years for assault.

come/get/reach etc home (=arrive at your home)

▪ It was midnight by the time we got home.

▪ What time are you coming home?

come/go around a corner

▪ At that moment, a police car came around the corner.

come/go ashore

▪ Seals come ashore to breed.

come/go/pass etc through an entrance

▪ People passed in single file through the narrow entrance.

comes apart

▪ The whole thing comes apart so that you can clean it.

comes complete with

▪ The house comes complete with swimming pool and sauna.

comes to pieces (=divides into separate parts)

▪ The shelving comes to pieces for easy transport.

comes up for renewal

▪ Mark’s contract comes up for renewal at the end of this year.

coming along...nicely (=it is growing well)

▪ The garden’s coming along very nicely now .

coming of age

darkness falls/comes (also darkness descendsliterary)

▪ As darkness fell, rescue workers had to give up the search.

don’t come cheap (=are expensive)

▪ Air fares to Africa don’t come cheap.

fall/come into a category

▪ The data we collected fell into two categories.

fall/come to bits (=separate into many different parts because of being old or damaged)

▪ The book was so old that I was afraid it would fall to bits.

find/come up with a solution

▪ We are working together to find the best solution we can.

find/think of/come up with an explanation

▪ Scientists have been unable to find an explanation for this phenomenon.

get/come (straight) to the point (=talk about the most important thing immediately)

▪ I haven't got much time so let's get straight to the point.

go on strike/come out on strike (=start a strike)

▪ An estimated 70,000 public sector workers went on strike.

go to/come to a party (also attend a partyformal)

▪ Are you going to Tom’s party?

▪ About 500 people will attend a party in her honour.

go up/come down in sb’s estimation (=be respected or admired more or less by someone)

go/come on stage

▪ I never drink before going on stage.

go/come/arrive by taxi

▪ I went back home by taxi.

hard to come by (=difficult to find or get)

▪ Permanent jobs are hard to come by.

inspiration comes from sb/sth

▪ The architect’s chief inspiration came from Christopher Wren.

last/current/coming/next fiscal year

leave/come out of hospitalBritish English, leave/come out of the hospital American English

▪ Her mother never left the hospital.

light comes from somewhere

▪ The only light came from the fire.

memories come flooding back (=you suddenly remember things clearly)

▪ Evelyn hugged her daughter, as memories came flooding back to her.

money comes from sth (=used to say how someone makes their money)

▪ All of Dawson’s money came from drugs.

money comes in (=is earned and received)

▪ Rob wasn’t working for a while, so we had less money coming in.

on a first come, first served basis

▪ Tickets will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

opposition comes from sb

▪ The strongest opposition came from Republican voters.

out came/jumped etc

▪ The egg cracked open and out came a baby chick.

reach/come to an agreement (also conclude an agreementformal)

▪ It took the two sides several weeks to reach an agreement.

▪ The two sides failed to come to an agreement.

reach/come to/arrive at a decision (=make a decision after a lot of thought)

▪ We hope they will reach their decision as soon as possible.

reach/come to/grow to maturity

▪ These insects reach full maturity after a few weeks.

return to/come back into the fold

▪ The Church will welcome him back into the fold.

return/come back etc empty-handed

▪ I spent all morning looking for a suitable present, but came home empty-handed.

sb's wish comes true

▪ His wish came true when he was called up to play for England.

stars appear/come out (=appear in the sky)

▪ We arrived home just as the stars were coming out.

sth comes/arrives in the post

▪ This letter came in the post this morning.

sth enters/comes into the equation (=something begins to have an effect)

▪ Consumer confidence also enters the equation.

sth/sb comes to a halt (=something or someone stops moving)

▪ In front of them, the truck gradually slowed down and came to a halt.

Strictly Come Dancing

the coming months (=the next few months)

▪ Further work is planned for the coming months.

the coming year (=the year that is about to start)

▪ Here are some events to look out for in the coming year.

The crunch came

▪ The crunch came when my bank asked for my credit card back.

the fog comes down (also the fog descendsliterary) (= it appears)

▪ Day after day the fog came down.

the heating comes on

▪ The heating comes on at six.

the mail comes/arrives

▪ The mail had come late that day.

the moon comes out (=appears as it gets dark or a cloud moves)

▪ The moon came out from behind the clouds.

the pain comes and goes (=keeps starting and stopping)

▪ The pain comes and goes but it’s never too severe.

the rain comes down (=it falls)

▪ If the rain starts coming down, we can always go inside.

▪ The monsoon rain comes down in sheets.

the shape of things to come (=an example of the way things will develop in the future)

▪ This new technique is the shape of things to come.

the sun comes out (=appears when cloud moves away)

▪ The rain stopped and the sun came out.

the sun rises/comes up (=appears at the beginning of the day)

▪ As the sun rises, the birds take flight.

the tide comes in (=the sea comes nearer)

▪ Once the tide comes in, the cove is cut off.

there comes a point when ...

▪ There comes a point where you have to accept defeat.

Things have come to a pretty pass

▪ Things have come to a pretty pass, if you can’t say what you think without causing a fight.

When it came to the crunch

▪ When it came to the crunch, she couldn’t agree to marry him.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

about

▪ The dream of making this world into a global market can only come about by perpetuating injustice.

▪ The addition of neural network methods came about because of several problems.

▪ From what subsequently came about in history, one may say what was his intention.

▪ And is it not highly unlikely that there should be a rule which ensures that what we desire will come about?

▪ However, we might pause to speculate how the above formulation of the Keynesian labour supply function came about.

▪ And many more are about coming back to school.

▪ No, such changes do not come about by laws, do they?

▪ It all comes about as deliberately, if unconsciously, contrived.

across

▪ You are the most stubborn, irritating child I have ever come across!

▪ Gore came across as an earnest, deliberately spoken politician, often gesturing with his hands.

▪ Seeing her husband, she set it down by the back door and came across to the stable.

▪ Flipping through the magazines, she came across an article on Alcoholics Anonymous.

▪ She still travels the world, tirelessly delivering papers at scientific gatherings and converting anyone she comes across on the way.

▪ Take advantage of any restroom facilities you come across.

▪ Advanced Hooray Most Hoorays you are likely to come across will have been educated at a public school.

▪ I emphasize that I have no wish to come across here as the skunk at the process improvement garden party.

along

▪ But no artist seems to have taken over the comic strip format whole until Art Spiegelman came along.

▪ The fifth to come along is my interviewee, a college classmate.

▪ I met Charlie, and he asked me to come along to the Mothering Day Service.

▪ We have Billy Reagan, too, who is coming along nicely.

▪ And record years on Wall Street do not come along like the Staten Island ferry.

▪ Because when he was coming along he was always getting me to tell him the story about you.

▪ Arid as I became more relaxed our love life returned to how it was before the children came along.

▪ One day some tree cutters came along and they chopped down his two friends.

around

▪ Roy Barker is coming around with 3-1 / 4 sacks and Chris Doleman is still a force at 36.

▪ She will come around, in time.

▪ Even the business schools are coming around to that point of view.

▪ Then he came around the bend and saw the bicycle.

▪ When Matt Williams followed with a clean single back up the middle, Justice came around to score.

▪ Alternatives: Some of the best Sauvignons around come from New Zealand.

▪ And archivists seem to have come around to recognizing his leadership qualities.

back

▪ It is only two weeks since Gough came back from a multiple fracture of the cheekbone.

▪ She will come back to laugh and read me books of scholars and hard-working sons.

▪ Why not come back to my place for coffee?

▪ Helen came back out with Majella.

▪ Sometimes a single son or daughter will give up their own home to come back and care for parents.

▪ People are coming back from holiday and putting their money to work.

▪ He'd come back and make another excuse to keep me hanging around.

▪ She would come back with rather strange vegetation.

▪ Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.

▪ If outright desire was hard to come by at City, we had our escapes.

▪ Jobs were difficult to come by anyway.

▪ I did not want to be sitting in my truck, waiting for a wolf to come by.

▪ Still, even in Biarritz asps are presumably hard to come by and the audience was in no mood to be critical.

▪ When a coffin comes by, we take our hats off and shut our mouths no matter who is in it.

▪ Accusations were also made against the police for active complicity in crime, but proof was difficult to come by.

▪ Cars came by occasionally, usually at a fairly good clip.

close

▪ When the chimpanzees came close to the leopard, he activated its mechanism, so that it started to move its head.

▪ Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.

▪ And if anybody came close to finding out, curtains ....

▪ But its spotlight circled seas at least a half-mile from him, never coming close.

▪ That came close to the need she felt.

▪ And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.

▪ But Jade Pike has come close to dying many times in the past year.

▪ Now Midleigh realized that no tide he had ever experienced had come close to the fury of the deceptive river.

down

▪ Neil was coming down the stairs as I reached the door.

▪ But everything that came down to us that we knew about and checked out would turn out to be wrong.

▪ It's come down through the years, this story.

▪ He came down to breakfast surprised to find cakes and candies heaped high on his plate.

▪ Besides which, in the long run it came down to the word of four people against one.

▪ So, it comes down to this.

▪ You're to come down at once.

▪ With crackling roar... it came down upon the Union line.

first

▪ It was up on Hugh's wall when I first came to his house in Shettleston.

▪ Both men and women believe that women's family responsibilities, especially if young children are involved, must come first.

▪ The two sources of power that first come to mind are solar and nuclear.

▪ When I first came here from Puerto Rico, he was there for me.

▪ I wish you could understand how it was, Ray, when Mike first came to Launceston.

▪ When she asks if there are any questions, she can guess which one will come first.

▪ Species: In the Latinized name for a plant, the genus comes first, then the species, a subdivision.

forward

▪ Evidence shows that where one victim comes forward, and an investigation starts, a trail showing unpopularity with other individuals emerges.

▪ Payment for councillors might also persuade more working-class representatives to come forward.

▪ Now I have come forward and said my piece.

▪ Will the owner please come forward?

▪ But when a volunteer does comes forward, it often becomes clear to the group that the feared repercussions do not exist.

▪ Will it be any easier for defendants to find witnesses who are prepared to come forward?

▪ In all, more than 20 young men, many of them former altar boys, came forward with similar stories.

here

▪ Isn't that what you did when you came here?

▪ They come here looking for a better life, the good, old-fashioned way our grandparents did: By working for it.

▪ She had to leave there at fifteen and come here.

▪ Before Friant, Hollywood stars like Clark Gable used to come here to duck hunt.

▪ Let's suppose Delia did come here that afternoon.

▪ That is why we have come here.

▪ This lady here came ashore at landing point theta, and promptly collapsed.

▪ They will always be able to come here if we need them.

home

▪ In mounting dismay she peered into the gloom, the invidious nature of her position coming home to her with a vengeance.

▪ Had he come home alive, some reporters would have no doubt trashed the trip as a taxpayer-paid junket.

▪ Instead of staying the requisite two years I came home after just nine months.

▪ When they came home, there would be nothing they could do.

▪ A sharp note has come home informing me that the costume must be made by the child.

▪ You come home to find your Snakehead chasing your wife around the lounge.

▪ He came home and unlocked the front door, calling out as he came.

▪ She cried when she first came home.

▪ It's possible that he tiptoed down the passage and came in by the main door.

▪ No money coming in, all of that.

▪ She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah's friend Edie Meadows, who lived nearby, came in.

▪ This is where you come in.

▪ And that is where the three bored blacks came in.

▪ As he said it, Fran opened the door and came in with a basket of apples.

▪ Five of those who'd come in with Martinho had disappeared subsequently.

▪ He was not thinking now, just watching the numbers come in.

never

▪ And for years and years they never came near.

▪ No doubt her husband would never come back.

▪ Other nomes never came in, because it was drafty and stunk unpleasantly.

▪ He never came close to realizing his dream of winning the presidency.

▪ It never comes easily - and nothing comes just from my head.

▪ Sam Smith is one of many natives who wish good times had never come to Williamson County.

▪ But there must be the desire to see in a new way or the vision will never come.

▪ His greatest glory is that he can not do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him.

off

▪ It's not fair, I haven't come off that ladder yet.

▪ The schedule is this: I came off work a half-hour ago.

▪ Look, after coming off tour I've just got no f-ing politics, religion, anything.

▪ That way, a speech comes off as extemporaneous, but it flows from one idea to another.

▪ She came off the slope at an uncontrollable pace that took her across the clearing and into the trees.

▪ Also, Lett, who is terrific, comes off the ball fast and tries to fly up the field.

▪ White people thought our colour would come off if they stroked our skin.

▪ Every time they do it, it comes off like clockwork.

▪ Just before we arrived at the station, the lights came on.

▪ United... come on now.

▪ I'd hoped to come on to Prague after that.

▪ They started kissing so hard that the music stopped and all the lights came on, and everybody screamed and howled delightedly.

▪ Sam and Joe, come on.

▪ He called back harshly that she should come on in!

▪ Angry Jemson suffered the embarrassment of coming on as substitute and then being substituted himself at Carrow Road.

out

▪ Good may eventually come out of evil.

▪ While he used more complex sentences consistently, some of them seemed to come out of left field.

▪ Nevertheless, many lawyers do come out in favour of the process.

▪ When they came out of the oven, they looked like a tortilla, flat as a pancake.

▪ His final report comes out in February.

▪ When you come out of a tunnel, you are drained.

▪ And on housing estates all along the line, residents came out to watch the strange scene.

▪ Her breath comes out in a loud hiss.

over

▪ However, I had already begun the process, long before coming over, of minimizing and dismissing my cultural identity.

▪ I got hold of a person from Protection and Advocacy to come over and talk to me.

▪ To her surprise he offered to come over to the office.

▪ I sit down and Oy comes over again.

▪ About 2 o'clock that afternoon, three Allied planes came over the coast and started to drop supplies by parachute.

▪ After that they kept coming over and questioning me and everything....

▪ But I think you were right to come over and talk to me.

▪ One day he was in the schoolyard with Firebug when this guy named Raul came over.

round

▪ So you've come round here to bash-up my young brother?

▪ He stayed in the room for as long as he could bear it, waiting to see if Ray would come round.

▪ Some man came round, and James phoned me afterwards, told me what he'd said.

▪ The summer passed away and the golden months of autumn came round.

▪ As Jake started to come round the desk towards her, she turned away, averting her eyes.

▪ When I came round I couldn't remember anything, had no idea who I was.

▪ And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place.

▪ There was a local schoolteacher coming round to give art therapy; that at least should provide some light relief.

through

▪ Annabel's call from Scott came through to Saracen just as dinner was announced.

▪ The men who came through stayed there, waiting for their ship.

▪ From what we know when the information did come through, it was sometimes partial and often faulty.

▪ A few days later, another band of Apaches came through and found one of the dead soldiers.

▪ Well, you could break all the moulds by smoothing the way for Mary O'Rourke to come through as your successor.

▪ He came through to play at our school in this long, stretch Franklin car, and we followed him into town.

▪ A reprieve would have come through.

▪ In my view Reagan had come through with flying colors.

together

▪ These, as he entered the headship, were coming together as a mixed voluntary-aided comprehensive high school.

▪ That they should come together we suppose was predestined.

▪ But those that come together for mutual support can and do survive.

▪ And just as the deal started coming together, the first hitch came: Original drummer Dusty Denham left.

▪ Is it a parody of the platonic republic, where politics, art and philosophy come together?

▪ And along the crooked border where the landmasses once came together, the researchers made an extraordinary discovery.

▪ Socially, economically and in human terms, the citizens of the Community are coming together.

▪ But our offensive line is coming together.

▪ Can you give me one more day to come up with something?

▪ After two or three years, Raymond gave up coming to court to argue.

▪ Here's what we came up with: Gravier chartered the Jet from the Hansa Jet operation.

▪ His grades came up, and he got involved.

▪ Each of these groups came up with a list of proposals which were sent to everyone attending.

▪ Evidently the emergency unit was coming up First, right at us.

▪ Every morning I come up and comb them, keep them soft, pleasant-looking.

▪ I came up with Spoogie the Badly Stained Carpet, who kids love.

■ NOUN

conclusion

▪ King finally came to the conclusion that there was nothing he could do to help his patients lose weight.

▪ If you care to try building that newsletter with PagePlus, however, you might see why I came to those conclusions.

▪ I came to quite another conclusion after hearing the stories of their lives.

▪ Similarly he came to the unusual conclusion that, since colours are simply visible species, all colours must have equal validity.

▪ I guarantee you'd come to the same conclusion, sir.

▪ Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion.

▪ I had come to the conclusion that there was no way of putting them back.

contact

▪ Black spots will appear on silver if it comes into contact with dry dishwasher powder.

▪ Blood is very toxic to neurons, which stop working and often die when the blood comes in direct contact with them.

▪ The divide between the two groups is considerable yet, increasingly, they do come into contact with each other.

▪ They were serious shoes, meant to come in direct contact with the surface of the planet.

▪ She wasn't even sure why she'd been so reluctant to come into contact with him.

▪ But after a few steps my head came into contact with an object.

▪ Is there danger to those who've come into contact with them?

▪ They then gradually came into contact with the outside world and were lured on to government reservations run by missionaries.

end

▪ The overthrow of Siyad Barre came at the end of a month of intense fighting on the streets of Mogadishu.

▪ But like a drug-induced euphoria, the leader-inspired high may come to an end.

▪ But the increasingly nasty dispute came to an abrupt end as the government announced a settlement.

▪ A convergence of prophecies agrees that something big is coming soon, some end of cycle phenomenon.

▪ The ruling came at the end of a five-year legal battle between a divorced couple that cost £840,000.

▪ Our conversation seems to have come to an end.

▪ David Lawrence, whose first overseas Test came to a tragic end when he broke his kneecap while bowling.

▪ Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end.

force

▪ Analogue computing will come back in force.

▪ In 1986 the new Public Order Act came into force.

▪ The Convention was to come into force upon ratification by 30 states.

▪ The Act and Regulations of 1988 came into force on 1 December 1988.

▪ They are highly controversial and can not come into force until after the next election.

▪ A directive which comes into force next year will set rules on television advertising across frontiers.

surprise

▪ They came back from a surprise David Currie opener to level in the second half through Steve Walsh.

▪ Which should come as no surprise to anyone who has heard his songs.

▪ Thus the strike came as no surprise to those involved.

▪ I got ta tell you this comes as a surprise to me, fella.

▪ The retrograde rotation of Venus came as a considerable surprise.

▪ Of course, in one way, this comes as no surprise.

▪ His suicide mission came as a surprise to more people than just his family.

▪ This comes as no surprise to Balkan-watchers who have been following the evolving tragedy in the country.

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(come) rain or shine

▪ Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.

▪ Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.

▪ He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.

▪ I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.

▪ Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.

▪ The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.

(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth

▪ A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.

▪ Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.

▪ Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.

amount/come to the same thing

▪ And even if it is not significant, it has the potential to be so-which amounts to the same thing.

▪ And literature will amount to the same thing: all writers are copycats.

▪ At once she thought: I could have taken two thousand, three - it would come to the same thing.

▪ Or rather, politics and morality come to the same thing.

▪ Or they act as if they do, which comes to the same thing.

▪ Since it formed a halo over the puck, did that amount to the same thing?

▪ The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.

▪ When electrical currents flow they produce magnetic fields and so it is possible that these two therapies amount to the same thing.

be a dream come true

▪ But winning a honeymoon just months before your wedding is a dream come true.

▪ For him, being aboard the raft was a dream come true.

▪ For Ruth it will be a dream come true as she becomes the youngest female licensed amateur rider in history.

▪ It really is a dream come true.

▪ It would be a dream come true to be able to observe my favourite species in a more natural situation.

▪ That would be a dream come true, but everybody around the country wants to win it.

▪ Winning a number was a dream come true for Deborah Fullford of Cambridge, the final Massachusetts woman selected.

be coming up roses

be coming/falling apart at the seams

▪ The country's whole economy is coming apart at the seams.

be/come along

▪ But every now and then, a bombshell comes along.

▪ Let Hilda know if you are coming along.

▪ Nevertheless, if we allow ourselves to be swayed by every fashion that comes along, we live in a perpetual muddle.

▪ Radiation, coming along shortly thereafter as a therapy method, reinforced this concept of cancer as a local body problem.

▪ Snake come along he bite you.

▪ They go to a place where they can be along and be able to find their soul.

▪ Until you came along, Century House was right out on a limb.

▪ You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.

be/come on the scene

▪ By then, there was a boyfriend on the scene.

▪ All this quickness of mind, all her decisiveness had turned to mush when Mac came on the scene.

▪ But we must keep in mind that millions of species arose and disappeared long before mankind came on the scene.

▪ By then, Wife Number Five had come on the scene.

▪ Etty with her friend Dolly Murchie, had come on the scene.

▪ I try to explain that Charles was only four when I came on the scene.

▪ No doubt when the subsidy commissioners came on the scene they were prevailed on to restore assessments to approximately the levels of 1515.

▪ That is where the plugger and press officer come on the scene.

be/come under fire

▪ Campbell came under fire for his handling of the negotiations.

▪ Grain-based cereal prices already have come under fire from Capitol Hill, with a report in mid-March by Reps.

▪ He added that to be accurate, the aircraft would have to risk coming under fire.

▪ He, in turn, came under fire from conservative Republicans in his home state.

▪ Its stance has come under fire from the president of the private sector's wood alliance, Corma.

▪ Peacekeeping forces came under fire in isolated incidents.

▪ Sir Derek came under fire from several shareholders.

▪ The service came under fire as scores of roads across the province were clogged with snow, snarling traffic and causing chaos.

▪ When crop-dusters come under fire, it is up to DynCorp helicopter pilots to provide support.

be/come up against a (brick) wall

▪ She swam in what she hoped was the direction of the stairs, only to come up against a wall.

be/come up against sb/sth

▪ A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.

▪ And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?

▪ At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.

▪ Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.

▪ In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.

▪ The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.

▪ Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.

▪ What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.

be/come/go halfway to doing sth

bring sth home to sb/come home to sb

come a cropper

come adrift

▪ But the highlight for me was a thumping take on a buzzer which came adrift after a couple of really powerful lunges.

▪ Shortly after this I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift.

come alive

▪ Cabral looks at the clay and her face comes alive as she begins to shape it.

▪ Hodges' stories make history come alive.

▪ The streets come alive after dark.

▪ And the defense came alive in the second half.

▪ As I began to research the background and archaeology of those places, the book came alive in a different way.

▪ By night, the Landing comes alive with jazz and the blues.

▪ For most people such details might be rather boring, but Robertson makes the narrative come alive through the personalities.

▪ In Great Groups, talent comes alive.

▪ Jane Austen's ironies came alive, and the ellipses in Virginia Woolf's prose started to speak.

▪ The walls come alive with foaming beer and music surrounds them as the audience journeys upward in a can of Guinness.

▪ There were voices outside as the train came alive.

come back/down to earth (with a bump)

▪ Adai can come back to Earth after Gog is dead - after I am dead, perhaps.

▪ AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics.

▪ In Karuzi you quickly come down to earth.

▪ Maybe, but the once pricey products that use this satellite technology have come down to earth.

▪ Peter Lilley came down to earth.

▪ They recently have come down to Earth.

come between sb

▪ A change from Krankoor to Kranko came between the 1847 and 1848 volumes, soon after Theunis's death.

▪ A true cat always comes between you and your newspaper.

▪ He has come between us and ruined our lives.

▪ No time lag should come between demand and supply.

▪ The bulk of the decline in traditional families came between 1970 and 1980, with smaller decreases since then.

▪ The Voice had come between them.

▪ Westward the Hudson came between Sammler and the great Spry industries of New Jersey.

▪ Yet again the business of running the hotel had come between them when they had something important to sort out.

come clean

▪ It's time the government came clean about its plans to raise income tax.

▪ The bank eventually came clean and admitted they had made a mistake.

▪ And when you picked hold of the fish and got hold of a piece it would come clean away.

▪ He felt happy to finally be able to come clean about it, but he felt her withdraw.

▪ In addition, you risk being fired when you come clean, another attorney pointed out.

▪ Labour will not come clean with its figures, so it is bound to describe ours as jiggery-pokery.

▪ So when the station came clean, they had to field several angry calls accusing them of pro-Nottingham Forest bias.

▪ Still, I must come clean.

▪ That is all very well, but why does he not come clean and give us Labour's figures?

▪ That night, at dinner, David and I came clean, and told our friends about singing to fish.

come close (to doing sth)

▪ A loose end, Kirov reminded himself as he came close to the man.

▪ A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.

▪ And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.

▪ Even La Scala, where an opening-night stall seat goes for £500, rarely comes close to breaking even.

▪ He can come close, perhaps, but the closer he comes, the greater the risk of slippage.

▪ Her horse came close and watched her.

▪ Later Mr O'Malley came close to confirming that his party would quit the coalition later this week.

▪ Miguel wanted to trust Firebug; he came close to letting everything spill out.

come down on sb like a ton of bricks

come down the pike

▪ Job opportunities like this don't come down the pike that often.

▪ Our image as a bunch of bumpkins who roll over for anything that comes down the pike?

come first

▪ Alma's family will always come first with her.

▪ For me, over the years, work came first, family came second.

▪ The rains came first, then the storms.

▪ And, like most important values, it came first from my family and was reinforced by good teachers.

▪ Angie Costello came first to mind, a bright lipsticked smile above a striped blue apron.

▪ But Rosie had come first, and real people mattered more than fantasies.

▪ Culture in Berlin came first through state institutions, and developed very late and all at once.

▪ I came first to the Flat Garden, with its bonsai azaleas, temple statuary, and a stunning view of Portland.

▪ The theory always came first, put forward from the desire to have an elegant and consistent mathematical model.

▪ This is where all bad accidents come first and have their clothes removed and first transfusions.

▪ Which came first, the decline in public interest or the decline in political news?

come hell or high water

▪ Come hell or high water, he'd never missed a race and he wasn't going to miss this one.

▪ I'll be there in time. Don't worry. Come hell or high water.

▪ I said I'd do it, so I will, come hell or high water.

▪ My father felt I should stay in my marriage come hell or high water.

▪ She'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would, come hell or high water.

come in from the cold

▪ But 20 years have at least seen her interests come in from the cold.

▪ But we have come in from the cold to bring back a sneak preview.

▪ Never come in from the cold and toast by a hot fire.

▪ Timothy Cranmer did not come in from the cold, exactly.

▪ Voice over Another faithful sign that winter is truly upon us, is when wildlife comes in from the cold.

▪ Who exactly was coming in from the cold?

come into being/be brought into being

▪ New democracies have come into being since the end of the Cold War.

come into focus/bring sth into focus

come into force/bring sth into force

come into sight

▪ We stood at the window until their car came into sight.

▪ After a moment they came into sight.

▪ But they instantly look the other way when he and his motorcade come into sight.

▪ But when the lane curved, a tavern came into sight and she went in.

▪ He'd have plenty of time to drive down when the target vehicle came into sight.

▪ He had only a few seconds before the postman came into sight through the trees above the road.

▪ The camp came into sight at the bottom of the road.

▪ The carob came into sight below.

come into the world

▪ He gave her a child every year, but was never there when it came into the world.

▪ He looked as if he came into the world fighting.

come into use

▪ Tanning beds came into use around 1979.

▪ Doors were fitted and it came into use on 7 September.

▪ Doubtless, this instability will continue as more sophisticated techniques of diagnosis come into use by the medical profession.

▪ It came into use around the turn of the century.

▪ The new register comes into use the following February.

▪ The scourge of firedamp explosions caused by the miners' lights should have dwindled to nothing after the lamp came into use.

▪ There were many different drugs coming into use.

▪ Various kinds of minuscule came into use, such as the humanistic and the Carolingian.

come of age

▪ Emma will inherit a fortune when she comes of age.

▪ In the 1940s, movies really came of age as a creative art form.

▪ Mozart's music came of age when the baroque style was at its height.

▪ They planned to marry as soon as she came of age.

▪ Britain's adopted children had come of age.

▪ Could 1992 be the year when the environmental revolution really comes of age?

▪ Duroc had had to come of age and replace the older Duroc in the service of Nguyen Seth.

▪ His leap from collector to seller may be the surest sign yet that road-map collecting has come of age.

▪ However, you will come of age in two months.

▪ It must be child development with this goal: that every child be ready for school when that child comes of age.

▪ Morris came of age in the 1850s.

come off worst

▪ Alec Davidson, for example, was one of those who came off worst.

come on stream

▪ The new plant will come on stream at the end of the year.

▪ A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

▪ If successful, the trust will come on stream in April, 1993.

▪ No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with.

▪ Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.

▪ The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

▪ The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

▪ They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

▪ With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come out of sth/come up smelling of roses

come out of the closet

▪ The trial brought the issue of sexual harassment out of the closet.

▪ Once people decide to come out of the closet, it is pretty easy to do here.

come out on top

▪ In a survey of customer preference, one model came consistently out on top.

▪ In all action movies, the hero always comes out on top.

▪ Usually the team with the most talent comes out on top.

▪ Anthony Courtney's warnings welled up again, coupled with a new determination to come out on top.

▪ Both individuals should feel they come out on top.

▪ But Tsongas turned those views around when he came out on top, beating rival Clinton in the New Hampshire primary.

▪ But WindowWorks comes out on top.

▪ The hero or heroine must ultimately come out on top.

▪ While Gladiator came out on top, the contest was far from a shoo-in.

▪ Yet, if they are in one, most men want to come out on top.

▪ You could sum up the event by saying a batch of first-time nominees came out on top this year.

come sb's way

▪ We're determined to take every opportunity that comes our way.

come to a head

▪ The situation came to a head when the workers went out on strike.

▪ Despite these embassy warnings matters seemed in danger of coming to a head early in 1951.

▪ Frictions between the Truman administration and MacArthur on the conduct of the war came to a head in April 1951.

▪ It all came to a head a couple weekends back.

▪ It was a struggle which came to a head in the reign of Edward the Confessor, which began in 1042.

▪ Matters finally came to a head about six weeks ago when my wife and I went out to dinner with another couple.

▪ That part of the debate should come to a head in December, when commissioners are scheduled to formally approve the projects.

▪ They came to a head in 1562 at the Council of Trent, reconvened after a ten-year break.

▪ Yet, even as this crisis came to a head, the bishops remained unrepentant.

come to a pretty pass

come to a pretty/sorry pass

come to a stop

▪ The elevator finally came to a stop at the 56th floor.

▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

▪ As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

▪ He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.

▪ His looking finally came to a stop at the Big Nurse.

▪ Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.

▪ The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.

▪ We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.

▪ With a triumphant belch, the train came to a stop and soon from a first-class carriage the beloved figure emerged.

come to blows (with sb)

▪ He and John, the Red Comyn, had come to blows before.

▪ The effect was unnerving, and at first I thought the old men would come to blows.

▪ The two actors reputedly almost came to blows and ended the film not talking to each other.

▪ The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows.

▪ They came to blows in Jersey last weekend and Speedie was fined £50 in court.

▪ Two men had come to blows, an arm had been broken.

▪ We curse and leave the room or even come to blows.

▪ When Antony and Cleopatra come to blows, the scene explodes.

come to grief

▪ But out of sight at the other end of the course, Mr Hill had also come to grief.

▪ Far from remaining a hero, he came to grief.

▪ She'd come to grief acting like that, but not from him.

▪ The reductivist enterprise thus inevitably comes to grief, and it is not altogether surprising that it does.

▪ Then might not the rotting stump of the tree split under their weight and they come to grief?

▪ This is often far from the case and many a combination has come to grief at the very last fence.

▪ When it comes to that interesting pastime, most members of most species come to grief.

come to hand

▪ And any missile that came to hand.

▪ Departmental staff are encouraged to share information as recorded, and other information as it comes to hand.

▪ Harrison, ever practical and resourceful, took what materials came to hand, and handled them well.

▪ No suitable material came to hand for the box hedges.

▪ The first item that came to hand was the flower.

▪ Then they replaced the nonfiction temporarily, as the volumes came to hand, and started on the second half.

▪ Until today, that was, when suddenly two very different pieces of information had come to hand.

▪ You're trying for something that's funky, something that sounds good, and you just grab whatever comes to hand.

come to heel

▪ During their bizarre courtship she was his willing puppy who came to heel when he whistled.

▪ Sometimes they succeed in pressuring others to come to heel.

come to life/roar into life/splutter into life etc

come to light/be brought to light

▪ It eventually came to light that the CIA had information about a security problem.

▪ But as Judge Priore's investigation continues, more mysteries come to light.

▪ Few such blemishes, given the secrecy of organizational practice, came to light.

▪ However, very interesting dynamics regarding the competition and market structure are coming to light.

▪ It is a complete mystery to everyone how the following gems came to light in 1989.

▪ The debate might have been clarified by study of the relevant Sanskrit texts: but these came to light only slowly.

▪ The problem came to light when an ambulance was delayed attending an emergency at Harwood-in-Teesdale, just before Christmas.

▪ The relationship came to light when a mysterious note was handed to a barrister at an earlier hearing.

▪ This came to light in the present century during widening and repair operations.

come to no harm/not come to any harm

▪ Fortunately, none of the hostages came to any serious harm.

▪ I'm sure Craig's old enough to catch a train into town without coming to any harm.

▪ If you keep quiet, you'll come to no harm.

come to nothing

▪ But it had come to nothing, and in the process he had recognised the truth behind his motives.

▪ Crack addicts, criminals, people whose lives have come to nothing.

▪ Even Sam Smith's valiant attempts to reduce the deficit came to nothing.

▪ If this was the intention it came to nothing, for the title was abolished in 1554.

▪ Plots to dispose of him came to nothing.

▪ Sadly it has come to nothing.

▪ Speculation that the deputy chairman, Lord Barnett, might also be removed came to nothing.

▪ Without action your job hunting will come to nothing.

come to rest

▪ Lynn's eyes came to rest on a framed picture on the bookshelf.

▪ The plane skidded along the runway and came to rest in a cornfield.

▪ A curlew called out as it rose above the waters, then came to rest alongside its mate among the rushes.

▪ Ahab abandons his watch and walks about the deck finally coming to rest against the rail.

▪ Finally the raft came to rest, sitting just below the tideline.

▪ From time to time she would glance back into the room, her eyes coming to rest on the casually seated figure of Tsu Ma.

▪ His second shot came to rest in a greenside bunker.

▪ Meanwhile, we spun out and came to rest with the car still running.

▪ She woke slowly from a vague dream as an errant breeze drifted over her face, coming to rest on her mouth.

▪ Those which happen to come to rest in a non-absorbing direction will absorb no more photons, and will thereafter stay put.

come to sb's attention

▪ Cuttings that should come to everybody's attention quickly can be pinned to the library noticeboard or contained in a monthly newsletter.

▪ I pay tribute to the fairness of the Home Office in dealing with the cases that have come to my attention.

▪ It's just come to my attention that he might have corresponded with Christabel LaMotte.

▪ Small strokes of frontal lobe seldom come to the attention of neurologists.

▪ Then it came to the attention of Edward Hooper, an unusually tenacious man.

▪ Unlike venereal disease, leprosy came to Western attention relatively late.

▪ We maintain a computerised database of potential acquirers against which we screen all opportunities that come to our attention.

come to terms with sth

▪ It took years for Rob to come to terms with his mother's death.

▪ An individual's sexuality is their own affair and they will come to terms with it when they are ready to.

▪ Four died in hospital and Emma Hartley, one of the survivors, was trying to come to terms with that.

▪ He sat at the window, staring out into the night trying to come to terms with the anger that overwhelmed him.

▪ I had to come to terms with that.

▪ It helps the young reader to come to terms with his or her own non-rational, unconscious-dominated behaviour.

▪ Only by finding each other again can they hope to come to terms with their tragedy.

▪ Refusing to come to terms with reality harms us and, incidentally, deceives no one else for long.

▪ They've been trying to come to terms with what's happened ever since.

come to the/sb's rescue

▪ Alberto has come to the rescue with One Step, a great new two-in-one shampoo and conditioner.

▪ And I could see no more, until the cavalry came to the rescue.

▪ But human ingenuity and intelligence, plus what may amount to an instinct for symbolism, comes to the rescue.

▪ But once again ingenuity came to the rescue.

▪ In theory, the Tory constituency parties could come to the rescue.

▪ Once again, Ashputtel sang her song for the birds; once again they came to her rescue.

▪ The designer from Mark Wilkinson, Debbie Weston, came to the rescue and suggested custom-painted ones.

▪ The thirty-day rule comes to the rescue for thirty days.

come to/meet a sticky end

▪ I can't help but think that it's an unfortunate custom to name children after people who come to sticky ends.

come true

▪ After 21 years, Carl's dream of owning a home came true.

▪ Patterson's dream came true when he won the Boston marathon on his first attempt.

▪ People say that if you make a wish at the top of the hill, it always comes true.

▪ And in no time at all, they see their dreams come true.

▪ But it is not a dream that is likely to come true, though perhaps not for the obvious reason.

▪ Ideas become a bit confused by the fact they feel a dream has come true.

▪ She was glad to see such a love story come true before her eyes.

▪ She was like a larger than life fantasy that had just come true.

▪ This is the land where dreams come true if you really, honestly want them to.

▪ This was a dream that came true.

▪ We thought maybe our worst nightmare came true.

come unglued

▪ If someone talked to me like that, I would just come unglued.

▪ When his parents got divorced, his whole world came unglued.

▪ Robbins, whose analogies tend strongly toward food, explained what happens when something comes unglued.

▪ What on earth was it about him that he could make her come unglued with just a single look?

▪ You can turn the Mustang into any bend at any speed and it won't ever come unglued.

come unstuck

▪ Another day we nearly came unstuck altogether.

▪ Because many skiers rely on skidding, they come unstuck in deep snow.

▪ Billy says that he first came unstuck in time in 1944, long before his trip to Tralfamadore.

▪ But even that achievement is now in danger of coming unstuck, as Larry Elliott points out on page 12.

▪ He told about having come unstuck in time.

▪ The layers of secrecy have come unstuck with time.

▪ This week, however, they came unstuck.

▪ Where I really came unstuck arguing with von Kranksch was on the subject of crystals.

come up short

▪ We've been to the state tournament four times, but we've come up short every time.

▪ He struck the ball tentatively, and it came up short.

▪ I went home, wanting to do something very special, but came up short.

▪ If we keep coming up short, tax the Patagonians.

▪ Judged by their own standards, they came up short.

▪ Kansas played well for 38 minutes but came up short in the end.

▪ Riley keeps coming up short, but insists on coming right back to pound the same hammer with the same nail.

▪ This analysis often reveals why some groups regularly succeed and others regularly come up short.

▪ We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.

come up with the goods/deliver the goods

▪ Neil Young's annual fall concert always delivers the goods with famous musicians and good music.

come within a whisker of (doing) sth

come/be on stream

▪ A seventy million pounds engine plant came on stream three years ago producing engines for Rover.

▪ Norton believes privatisation of electricity and water companies means more funds will come on stream.

▪ The Lomond platform is due to come on stream in April.

▪ The plant is scheduled to come on stream in the spring of 1992.

▪ They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression.

▪ Those two plants came on stream at a time when we needed all the capacity they could provide.

▪ Two years later, the new developments are on stream, bringing the target of 400 job opportunities even closer.

▪ With more and more reactors coming on stream every year, it was inevitable that problems would begin to occur.

come/follow hot on the heels of sth

▪ It comes hot on the heels of the C5 saloon we showed you last week.

come/get to grips with sth

▪ At that time, she was still coming to grips with her unexpected plunge into social activism.

▪ BInstitutions are just now coming to grips with the consequences.

▪ In my view this is an evasion of the teacher's duty to enable pupils to get to grips with academic language.

▪ Neither Jantzen nor McFague really gets to grips with the philosophical issues involved.

▪ Now he's getting to grips with his injuries.

▪ The whole program works very well, I still seem to have problems in getting to grips with some areas.

▪ Tutorials on disk are the latest way to get to grips with problem areas.

▪ We are still trying to come to grips with the problems identified by the Romantics.

come/go along for the ride

▪ I had nothing better to do, so I thought I'd go along for the ride.

▪ But do members just go along for the ride?

▪ His pride would never let Olajuwon simply go along for the ride.

▪ I was wondering if you fancied coming along for the ride.

▪ I went along for the ride.

▪ Lord knows where they're heading, but you really should go along for the ride.

▪ Or she probably chose me for him and he just went along for the ride.

▪ Other major players in the Las Vegas casino market came along for the ride.

▪ The dancers were flown to Washington, with Talley Beatty going along for the ride.

come/go full circle

▪ After the experiments of the 1960s, education has come full circle in its methods of teaching reading.

▪ A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

▪ Cross the Bahnhof bridge, and you will have come full circle back to the starting point.

▪ In a way, we've almost come full circle back to what I was trained to do, which is teaching.

▪ Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

▪ So we have come full circle.

▪ The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

▪ Thus the research has come full circle.

▪ Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

come/go under the hammer

▪ A collection of prints and paintings by Picasso came under the hammer at Sotheby's yesterday.

▪ Three Renoir paintings will come under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York.

▪ As for football, it also came under the hammer for the usual reasons.

▪ Hundreds of items go under the hammer to save a medieval manor.

▪ In 1972 it failed to reach reserve price when it came under the hammer at auction.

▪ It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today.

▪ Read in studio A collection of battered old toys has come under the hammer at an auction today.

▪ So that and nearly 500 other lots will go under the hammer at Sotherbys tomorrow.

▪ The rest of his collection is going under the hammer.

▪ They will go under the hammer at the London auctioneers Spink on 17 May.

come/go with the territory

▪ I expected the criticism it comes with the territory when you're a public figure.

▪ As economies mature, they say, economic slowdown comes with the territory.

▪ Dealing with the guest who is in a delicate business situation or just a very bad mood all goes with the territory.

▪ Death always went with the territory.

▪ Human rights abuses go with the territory.

▪ Most of us have been doing this for a long time, and it goes with the territory.

▪ She just said she felt it went with the territory.

▪ Some of this borderline recklessness goes with the territory.

▪ The strain, the negativity, the isolation all came with the territory.

come/go/get along

▪ Depending on the circumstances, I was willing to go along.

▪ I went along the colonnade to the corner of the southern front of the house.

▪ In the best programs, 3-and 4-year-olds learn social skills, how to share and get along.

▪ Rashly volunteering to be a contestant, I went along the previous Saturday to practice.

▪ She said she does not get along well with her children and can not get them to clean.

▪ She wants to go along too.

▪ The countries in the region do not want Kosovo independence, and Washington appears to go along with that view.

▪ Why don't you ask Brenda and Belinda to come along to Friday meetings?

come/go/turn full circle

▪ A manufacturer of sun care products has just issued a report showing that the view on tanning has come full circle.

▪ Now his fortunes are poised to turn full circle again.

▪ Now the pattern has turned full circle.

▪ Only a classic endures, and sooner or later the fashion comes full circle.

▪ The neo-colonial wheel has almost come full circle.

▪ The wheel has turned full circle in the past 25 years.

▪ Thus the research has come full circle.

▪ Today, society has evolved and the wheel has come full circle.

come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop

▪ A limousine carrying Harris and several other black passengers jerked to a stop.

▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

▪ And moments later he comes to a stop.

▪ As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

▪ He had given no sign of injury until we came to a stop.

▪ It swerved wildly towards the wall, bounced over the pavement and came to a stop four feet from the concrete wall.

▪ Once it has been consumed, the Darwinian machine comes to a stop.

▪ When it jerked to a stop they were led out into a narrow carpeted passage.

come/spring to mind

▪ All of this comes to mind because of the movies.

▪ As I thought about this, two questions kept coming to mind.

▪ Dell and Elonex immediately spring to mind.

▪ Faded was the word that sprang to mind - everything had a rather tired quality about it.

▪ He waited for something to come to mind.

▪ Multiple calamities had come to mind.

▪ Three possible explanations come to mind.

come/turn up trumps

▪ And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.

▪ Conrad Allen came up trumps again, finishing fourth in the boys 800 metres in a personal best 2 mins. 22.

▪ Ibanez seem to have taken another daring step in their continuing success story and come up trumps once again.

▪ In part two: Four of a kind ... Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton.

▪ You've come up trumps, Derek.

crawl/come out of the woodwork

▪ Creativity was coming out of the woodwork.

▪ There are wallabies crawling out of the woodwork.

easy come, easy go

feel peculiar/come over all peculiar

first come, first served

go up/come down in the world

go/come along

▪ A Democratic Capitol Hill aide said it's too early to tell whether Congress will go along with the proposal.

▪ Gingrich listened carefully to the Tuesday Lunch Bunch, and sometimes came along to their meetings.

▪ If you would like to reassess your life and learn how to use stress to your advantage, come along.

▪ Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.

▪ Sam Fermoyle came along West Street.

▪ So I agreed to go along.

▪ The discussion groups were relatively open, and many people came along as friends of friends.

▪ Until Green Bay came along, either one of these two teams was going to win the Super Bowl.

go/come/be down to the wire

▪ We were in a couple of games that went right down to the wire.

▪ In the event the starting line-up went down to the wire.

▪ It is down to the wire.

have sth coming out (of) your ears

here comes sb/sth

how come?

▪ How come he's asked us to spend all this money and not them?

▪ How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy?

▪ How come Mrs Wall-Eye know my name?

▪ How come the vast majority of the population appears to want to play make-believe?

▪ How come you never asked me what happened?

▪ Joey, how come you never sweet-talk me in person?

if the worst comes to the worst

it will all come out in the wash

kingdom come

▪ As you are risen, it is new kingdom come. 17.

▪ He heard Barnabas hit the study floor running, scattering a braided rug to kingdom come.

▪ He nearly blew us all to kingdom come once ....

▪ His movements came within inches of blowing them all to kingdom come.

▪ The people in the kingdom came to love Aladdin, and the sultan made him a captain in the army.

▪ The truck was blown to kingdom come.

▪ Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

▪ Ya do one fucken thing wrong in yur whole goddamn life an ya got ta pay fer it till kingdom come!

not come near sb/sth

▪ Bankside activity has reached such a pitch, even at night, that the carp will not come near the margins.

▪ Her fiance, the man who was supposed to love her, had not come near her since her father's death.

▪ My wife would not come near me.

rise/come back/return from the dead

▪ A few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family house and fortune.

▪ Friends don't come back from the dead, Leila thought, rampaging through the corridor from the canteen.

▪ The single engine airplane business came back from the dead after the General Aviation Revitalization Act made it harder to sue.

▪ When Cardiff had come back from the dead, he had shrunk away back down the hessian-screen corridor towards Rohmer.

sb's chickens have come home to roost

sb's number comes up

sth would not come/go amiss

▪ A last round of the rooms wouldn't come amiss.

▪ A little humility in the medical debate would not go amiss.

▪ A little thank you to the Ombudsman would not go amiss. --------------------.

▪ A tankful of petrol wouldn't come amiss.

▪ Adding a few seconds to your dev.time to allow for the stop, etc. wouldn't go amiss.

▪ An apology wouldn't go amiss.

▪ In this climate, a down-home bear hug and attendant back slapping probably wouldn't go amiss.

▪ This remained a most important consideration, but some relaxation of the original prohibition would not go amiss.

take each day as it comes

take effect/come into effect

that's rich (coming from him/you etc)

the coming of sth/sb

▪ All around the globe at this time of year people celebrate the coming of new life into the world.

▪ Formerly it heralded special occasions and, it is said, will be blown to announce the coming of the Messiah.

▪ From my earliest childhood, I had heard people talk of the coming of better times, of the redemption of mankind.

▪ In short, nowhere illustrates better than Mississippi the coming of age of the Republican Party in the South.

▪ Mrs Moore sat with Lily's pale hand in hers and talked with desperate gaiety about the coming of spring.

▪ With the coming of full consciousness among these and related currents, Trotskyism will become a powerful current.

▪ With the coming of the Reagan administration, however, Hermann was told to clean out his desk.

till the cows come home

▪ They stay up and play cards till the cows come home.

when/if it comes to the point

when/if push comes to shove

which came first, the chicken or the egg?

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ Come a little closer.

▪ Can Billy come too?

▪ Can you come to my party?

▪ Christianity came to Russia in 989.

▪ Has the mail come yet?

▪ My mother's saying she won't come if Richard's here.

▪ Sarah's coming later on.

▪ Some of the birds have come thousands of miles to winter here.

▪ The camera comes complete with batteries.

▪ The morning sun came through the doorway.

▪ The phone bill came at a bad time.

▪ We're having a meal at my home tomorrow night. Do you want to come?

▪ We come here every summer.

▪ What time is Dad coming home?

▪ When the visitors come, send them up to my office.

▪ Winter came early that year.

▪ You should have come to the concert -- it was really good.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ After supper on my first night back, Clarisa took Janir to bed and never came out of her room.

▪ But when she came up to me after that third seminar I was so shocked and embarrassed that I could barely speak.

▪ He rolled a couple of yards downhill and came to rest in a dwarf willow bush.

▪ I came to dance thinking it was the art of motion, the art of action.

▪ Just as our house came into view, one of our horses trotted up to visit.

▪ The excitement comes in the planning of a job from its very birth.

▪ You want to come with me?

II.noun

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(come) rain or shine

▪ Burrow runs two miles, rain or shine, everyday.

▪ Every morning at about 5am, come rain or shine, James Zarei leaves his South Croydon home on his morning run.

▪ He seldom drinks alcohol, never touches drugs, and runs six miles every morning, rain or shine.

▪ I kid you not: each year rain or shine, Californian Poppy.

▪ Scores of rambling and cycling clubs headed remorselessly for the Dales each weekend, come rain or shine.

▪ The working week began every Monday, rain or shine.

(come/work etc) under the umbrella of sth

▪ A whole range of behaviour is subsumed under the umbrella of bureaucratic self-interest.

▪ Finally, war served to bring all members of a society, soldier and civilian, under the umbrella of national consciousness.

▪ Governments also use the more industrially orientated labs under the umbrella of the Fraunhofer society.

(now I) come to think of it

▪ But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John.

▪ Come to think of it, Columbia wouldn't have been around if it hadn't been for the blues.

▪ Come to think of it, even Hillary Rodham Clinton could learn something from Alexander about how to invest her money.

▪ Come to think of it, he'd seemed rather a decent chap, some one it might be worth getting to know.

▪ Come to think of it, they might want to hang on to those packing crates.

▪ So did Mom, come to think of it.

▪ You never know, come to think of it.