come
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come under, be classified or included
- “fall into a category”
- “This comes under a new heading”
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Origin
From Middle English comen, cumen, from Old English cuman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt (“to step; to arrive”), from *gʷem- (“to come, step”).
Phrases
- a bad penny always comes back
- a long time in coming
- after Saturday comes Sunday
- all good things come to an end
- all good things must come to an end
- all is fish that comes to the net
- all things come to those who wait
- all's fish that comes to the net
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