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[come by] To get; obtain; acquire. * /A good job like that is hard to come by./ * /Money easily come by is often easily spent./ * /How did she come by that money?/

[come by honestly] , To inherit (a characteristic) from your parents. * /Joe comes by his hot temper honestly; his father is the same way./

[come clean] , To tell all; tell the whole story; confess. * /The boy suspected of stealing the watch came clean after long questioning./

[comedown] Disappointment; embarrassment; failure. * /It was quite a comedown for Al when the girl he took for granted refused his marriage proposal./

[come down] 1. To reduce itself; amount to no more than. Followed by "to". * /The quarrel finally came down to a question of which boy would do the dishes./ Syn.: BOIL DOWN(3). 2. To be handed down or passed along, descend from parent to child; pass from older generation to younger ones. * /Mary's necklace had come down to her from her grandmother./

[come down hard on] , 1. To scold or punish strongly. * /The principal came down hard on the boys for breaking the window./ 2. To oppose strongly. * /The minister in his sermon came down hard on drinking./

[come down in the world] To lose a place of respect or honor, become lower (as in rank or fortune). * /The stranger plainly had come down a long way in the world./ Compare: DOWN ON ONE'S LUCK.

[come down off one's high horse] To become less arrogant; to assume a more modest disposition. * /The boastful candidate for Congress quickly came down off his high horse when he was soundly beaten by his opponent./

[come down on like a ton of bricks] , To direct one's full anger at somebody. * /When the janitor was late for work, the manager came down on him like a ton of bricks./

[come down to earth] See: COME BACK TO EARTH.

[come down with] , To become sick with; catch. * /We all came down with the mumps./ * /After being out in the rain, George came down with a cold./

[come from far and wide] To originate or hail from many different places. * /The students at this university come from far and wide and speak many languages./

[come full circle] , 1. To become totally opposed to one's own earlier conviction on a given subject. * /Today's conservative businessperson has come full circle from former radical student days./ 2. To change and develop, only to end up where one started. * /From modern permissiveness, ideas about child raising have come full circle to the views of our grandparents./

[come hell or high water] , No matter what happens; whatever may come. * /Grandfather said he would go to the fair, come hell or high water./ Compare: COME WHAT MAY, THROUGH THE MILL.

[come home to roost] See: CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST.

[come in] 1. To finish in a sports contest or other competition. * /He came in second in the hundred-yard dash./ 2. To become the fashion; begin to be used. * /Swimming trunks for men came in after World War I; before that men used full swim suits./

[come in for] To receive. * /He came in for a small fortune when his uncle died./ * /His conduct came in for much criticism./

[come in handy] , To prove useful. * /Robinson Crusoe found tools in the ship which came in handy when he built a house./ * /The French he learned in high school came in handy when he was in the army in France./

[come into] To receive, especially after another's death; get possession of. * /He came into a lot of money when his father died./ * /He came into possession of the farm after his uncle died./

[come into one's own] To receive the wealth or respect that you should have. * /John's grandfather died and left him a million dollars; when John is 21, he will come into his own./ * /With the success of the Model T Ford, the automobile industry came into its own./

[came natural] See: COME EASY.

[come of] 1. To result from. * /After all the energy we spent on that advertising campaign, absolutely nothing came of it./ 2. To become of; happen to. * /"Whatever became of your son, Peter?"/

[come of age] See: OF AGE.

[come off] 1. To take place; happen. * /The picnic came off at last, after being twice postponed./ 2. To do well; succeed. * /The attempt to bring the quarreling couple together again came off, to people's astonishment./

[come off it] also [get off it] , Stop pretending; bragging, or kidding; stop being silly. - Used as a command. * /"So I said to the duchess..." Jimmy began. "Oh, come off it," the other boys sneered./ * /Fritz said he had a car of his own. "Oh, come off it," said John. "You can't even drive."/

[come off] or [through with flying colors] To succeed; triumph. * /John came off with flying colors in his final exams at college./

[come off second best] To not win first but only second, third, etc. place. * /Our home team came off second best against the visitors./ * /Sue complains that she always comes off second best when she has a disagreement with her husband./

[come on] 1. To begin; appear. * /Rain came on toward morning./ * /He felt a cold coming on./ 2. To grow or do well; thrive. * /The wheat was coming on./ * /His business came on splendidly./ 3. or [come upon]. To meet accidentally; encounter; find. * /He came on an old friend that day when he visited his club./ * /He came upon an interesting idea in reading about the French Revolution./ Syn.: COME ACROSS, HAPPEN ON. 4. Let's get started; let's get going; don't delay; don't wait. - Used as a command. * /"Come on, or we'll he late," said Joe, but Lou still waited./ 5. Please do it! Used in begging someone to do something. * /Sing us just one song, Jane, come on!/ * /Come on, Laura, you can tell me. I won't tell anybody./

[come-on] , An attractive offer made to a naive person under false pretenses in order to gain monetary or other advantage. * /Joe uses a highly successful come-on when he sells vacant lots on Grand Bahama Island./

[come one's way] To be experienced by someone; happen to you. * /Tom said that if the chance to become a sailor ever came his way, he would take it./ * /I hope bad luck isn't coming our way./ * /Luck came Bill's way today and he hit a home run./ Compare: GO ONE'S WAY, IN ONE'S FAVOR.

[come on strong] , To overwhelm a weaker person with excessively strong language, personality, or mannerisms; to insist extremely strongly and claim something with unusual vigor. * /Joe came on very strong last night about the War in Indochina; most of us felt embarrassed./

[come out] 1. To be formally introduced to polite society at about age eighteen, usually at a party; begin to go to big parties, * /In society, girls come out when they reach the age of about eighteen, and usually it is at a big party in their honor; after that they are looked on as adults./ 2. To be published. * /The book came out two weeks ago./ 3. To become publicly known. * /The truth finally came out at his trial./ 4, To end; result; finish. * /How did the story come out?/ * /The game came out as we had hoped./ * /The snapshots came out well./ 5. To announce support or opposition; declare yourself (for or against a person or thing). * /The party leaders came out for an acceptable candidate./ * /Many Congressmen came out against the bill./ 6. See: GO OUT FOR.

[coming-out] Introducing a girl to polite society. * /Mary's parents gave her a coming-out party when she was 17./

[come out for] To support; declare oneself in favor of another, especially during a political election. * /Candidates for the presidency of the United States are anxious for the major newspapers to come out for them./

[come out in the open] 1. To reveal one's true identity or intentions. * /Fred finally came out in the open and admitted that he was gay./ 2. To declare one's position openly. * /The conservative Democratic candidate came out in the open and declared that he would join the Republican party./

[come out with] 1. To make a public announcement of; make known. * /He came out with a clear declaration of his principles./ 2. To say. * /He comes out with the funniest remarks you can imagine./

[come over] To take control of; cause sudden strong feeling in; happen to. * /A sudden fit of anger came over him./ * /A great tenderness came over her./ * /What has come over him?/

[come round] or [come around] 1. To happen or appear again and again in regular order. * /And so Saturday night came around again./ * /I will tell him when he comes round again./ 2. To get back health or knowledge of things; get well from sickness or a faint./ * /Someone brought out smelling salts and Mary soon came round./ * /Jim has come around after having had stomach ulcers./ 3. To change direction, * /The wind has come round to the south./ 4. To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another's. * /Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story./

[come through] , To be equal to a demand; meet trouble or a sudden need with success; satisfy a need. * /When the baseball team needed a hit, Willie came through with a double./ * /John needed money for college and his father came through./

[come to] (stress on "to") 1. To wake up after losing consciousness; get the use of your senses back again after fainting or being knocked out. * /She fainted in the store and found herself in the first aid room when she came to./ * /The boxer who was knocked out did not come to for five minutes./ * /The doctor gave her a pill and after she took it she didn't come to for two days./ Compare: BRING TO. 2. (stress on "come") To get enough familiarity or understanding to; learn to; grow to. - Used with an infinitive. * /John was selfish at first, but he came to realize that other people counted, too./ * /During her years at the school, Mary came to know that road well./ 3. To result in or change to; reach the point of; arrive at. * /Mr. Smith lived to see his invention come to success./ * /Grandfather doesn't like the way young people act today; he says, "I don't know what the world is coming to."/ 4. To have something to do with; be in the field of; be about. - Usually used in the phrase "when it comes to". * /Joe is not good in sports, but when it comes to arithmetic he's the best in the class./ * /The school has very good teachers, but when it comes to buildings, the school is poor./

[come to a dead end] To reach a point from which one cannot proceed further, either because of a physical obstacle or because of some forbidding circumstance. * /Our car came to a dead end; the only way to get out was to drive back in reverse./ * /The factory expansion project came to a dead end because of a lack of funds./

[come to blows] To begin to fight. * /The two quarreling boys came to blows after school./ * /The two countries came to blows because one wanted to be independent from the other./

[come to grief] To have a bad accident or disappointment; meet trouble or ruin; end badly; wreck; fail. * /Bill came to grief learning to drive a car./ * /Nick's hopes for a new house came to grief when the house he was building burned down./ * /The fishing boat came to grief off Cape Cod./

[come to grips with] 1. To get hold of (another wrestler) in close fighting. * /After circling around for a minute, the two wrestlers came to grips with each other./ 2. To struggle seriously with (an idea or problem). * /Mr. Blake's leaching helps students come to grips with the important ideas in the history lesson./ * /Harry cannot be a leader, because he never quite comes to grips with a problem./ Compare: COME TO TERMS(2).

[come to hand] To be received or obtained. * /Father's letter was mailed from Florida last week and came to hand today./ * /The new books came to hand today./ * /New information about the boy's disappearance came to hand yesterday./

[come to heel] See: TO HEEL.

[come to life] See: COME ALIVE.

[come to light] To be discovered; become known; appear. * /John's thefts from the bank where he worked came to light when the bank examiners made an inspection./ * /When the old woman died it came to light that she was actually rich./ * /New facts about ancient Egypt have recently come to light./ Compare: BRING TO LIGHT.