Come in, Come in for Meaning and

Examples

Come in

 Meaning: Enter

 Example: Please come in and look

around.

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Come in

 Meaning: Arrive

 Example: That flight just came in.

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Come in

 Meaning: Become relevant, applicable

or useful

 Example: The third stage of the plan is

where Team B comes in.
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Come in

 Meaning: Become available

 Example: Blueberries will be coming in

next month.

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Come in

 Meaning: Have a strong enough signal

to be able to be received well

 Example: Most of the neighbors get 14

channels, but only two of them come in
well here.

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Come in

 Meaning: Join or enter; to begin

playing with a group
 Example: They started together, but
the drummer came in late.

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Come in

 Meaning: Begin transmitting

 Example: This is Charlie 456 to base.

Come in, base. Do you read me?

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Come in

 Meaning: Function in the indicated

manner

 Example: Four-wheel drive sure came

in handy while the bridge was washed
out.

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Come in

 Meaning: Finish a race or similar

competition in a particular position

 Example: The horse I had bet on came

in fourth in the second race.

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Come in for

 Meaning: Be subjected to

 Example: If you go into the forest,

you’ll come in for a nasty surprise.

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Come into Meaning and Examples Come

into

 Meaning: Inherit (money)

 Example: After his father died, he
came into a large fortune.

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Come into

 Meaning: Be a factor in

 Example: Money doesn’t come into it.

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Come off Meaning and Examples Come

off

 Meaning: Have some success, to

succeed

 Example: He tried his Chaplin

impression, but it didn’t really come off.

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Come off

 Meaning: To happen, take place

 Example: Did the trip to Paris ever
come off?

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Come on Meaning and Examples Come on

 Meaning: Encouragement

 Example: Come on, my son, it’s time to

pack away your toys. Come on

 Meaning: Appear on a television

broadcast

 Example: I was going to turn off the

TV, but my favorite show came on.

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Come on

 Meaning: Progress, to develop 

Example: The new garden is coming on
nicely. Come on
 Meaning: Encounter, discover; to come
upon.  Example: Turning the corner, I
came on Julia sitting by the riverbank.

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Come on

 Meaning: Make a romantic or sexual

advance to; to hit on

 Example: He was really coming on to

me at the party.

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Come on

 Meaning: Start to

 Example: It came on to snow after

dusk.

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Come on

 Meaning: Be discovered, be revealed

 Example: It finally came out that he

had been lying all the time.

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Come on

 Meaning: Be published, be issued

 Example: My new book comes out next

week.

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Come on

 Meaning: End up or result

 Example: There were a lot of

problems at the start, but it all came out
well in the end.
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Come on

 Meaning: Come out of the closet

 Example: He came out about being gay

to his parents last week.

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Come on

 Meaning: Be deducted from

 Example: That comes out of my

paycheck.

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Come on

 Meaning: Leave (out of), exit from

 Example: The mouse came out of the

hole.

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Come on

 Meaning: Express one’s opinion openly

 Example: You had come out in favor of
the French Revolution.

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Come out in, Come out of, Come out with

Meaning and Examples Come out in

 Meaning: Be afflicted by

 Example: He’s come out in spots.

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Come out in

 Meaning: Say something unexpected

 Example: He came out with a very

dubious excuse.
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Come out of

 Meaning: To develop from something

 Example: The book came out of his
experiences in Rome.

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Come out with

 Meaning: Say something publicly and

unexpectedly

 Example: He comes out with the

strangest things!

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Come out with

 Meaning: Make something available/to

be produced or published

 Example: The company came out with a

new line in just three months.
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Come over, come round Meaning and

Examples Come over

 Meaning: Affect

 Example: I apologise for my behaviour

last night. I don’t know what came over
me.

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Come round

 Meaning: Recover consciousness, to

come to

 Example: After the blow to my head,

I took a while to come round.