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come round
come around
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.
To get back health or knowledge of things; get well from sickness or a faint.
Jim has come around after having had stomach ulcers.
Someone brought out smelling salts and Mary soon came round.
To change direction.
The wind has come round to the south.
To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another's.
Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story.
come through
To be equal to a demand; meet trouble or a sudden need with success; satisfy a need.
John needed money for college and his father came through.
When the baseball team needed a hit, Willie came through with a double.
come to a dead end
come to an end
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.
To end, to stop.
This idiom is used with finally and never when some activity lasts too long.
Even though my friend seemed to enjoy the movie, I thought that it would never come to an end.
The meeting finally came to an end at ten o’clock in the evening.
come to blows
To begin to fight.
The two countries came to blows because one wanted to be independent from the other.
The two quarreling boys came to blows after school.
come to grief
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
To get hold of (another wrestler) in close fighting.
After circling around for a minute, the two wrestlers came to grips with each other.
To struggle seriously with (an idea or problem).
Harry cannot be a leader, because he never quite comes to grips with a problem.
Mr. Blake's leaching helps students come to grips with the important ideas in the history lesson.
come to hand
To be received or obtained.
Father's letter was mailed from Florida last week and came to hand today.
New information about the boy's disappearance came to hand yesterday.
The new books came to hand today.
come to light
To be discovered; become known; appear.
John's thefts from the bank where he worked came to light when the bank examiners made an inspection.
New facts about ancient Egypt have recently come to light.
When the old woman died it came to light that she was actually rich.