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

[come down with] {v.} , {informal} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {adv. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v.} 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] {v.} To receive. •/ He came in for a small fortune when his uncle died. / •/ His conduct came in for much criticism. /

[come in handy] {v. phr.} , {informal} 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] {v.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v.} 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] {v.} 1. To take place; happen. •/ The picnic came off at last, after being twice postponed. / 2. {informal} 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] {v. phr.} , {slang} 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] {v. phr.} To succeed; triumph. •/ John came off with flying colors in his final exams at college. /

[come off second best] {v. phr.} 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] {v.} 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. {informal} 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. {informal} 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] {n.} , {slang} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} , {slang} 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] {v.} 1. {Of a girl:} 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] {adj.} Introducing a girl to polite society. •/ Mary’s parents gave her a coming-out party when she was 17. /

[come out for] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v.} 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] {v.} 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. {informal} 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. {informal} To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another’s. •/ Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story. /

[come through] {v.} , {informal} 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] {v.} (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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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] {v. phr.} 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).