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Phrase(s): come to something
to end up being helpful or significant. (See also amount to something; when it comes to something.) • Do you think this work will come to anything? • I don’t think this will come to what we were promised., Phrase(s): come to
to become conscious; to wake up. • We threw a little cold water in his face, and he came to immediately., Phrase(s): come to oneself
to begin acting and thinking like one’s normal self. • I began to come to myself and realize the wrong I had done. • Please come to yourself and stop acting so strangely.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Recover consciousness, as in She fainted but quickly came to. [Second half of 1500s] 2. Arrive at, learn, as in I came to see that Tom had been right all along. [c. 1700] 3. See AMOUNT TO, def. 2. 4. See WHEN IT COMES TO. 5. Stop a sailboat or other vessel by bringing the bow into the wind or dropping anchor, as in "The gale having gone over, we came to" (Richard Dana, Two Years Before the Mast, 1840). [Early 1700s] Also see the subsequent entries beginning with COME TO.
American Heritage Idioms