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Phrase(s): come before someone or something
1. [of persons or things in an order or a line] to be in front of or in advance of someone or something. • This one comes before that one. • She comes before me. 2. [for one] to present oneself in the presence of someone or a group. • Thank you for coming before this committee with your testimony. • The judge said I would have to come before her again next month. 3. [for an issue] to be raised before someone, a board, committee, etc.; [for an issue] to appear on the agenda of someone or a deliberative body. • The matter of the broken windows came before the school board at last. • The question came before the business manager.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs