Словарь американских идиом (8000 единиц)
Шрифт:
[come on strong] <v. phr.>, <slang> To overwhelm a weaker person with excessively strong language, personality, or mannerisms; to insist extremely strongly and claim something with unusual vigor. * /Joe came on very strong last night about the War in Indochina; most of us felt embarrassed./
[come out] <v.> 1. <Of a girl:> To be formally introduced to polite society at about age eighteen, usually at a party; begin to go to big parties, * /In society, girls come out when they reach the age of about eighteen, and usually it is at a big party in their honor; after that they are looked on as adults./ 2. To be published. * /The book came out two weeks ago./ 3. To become publicly known. * /The truth finally came out at his trial./ 4, To end; result; finish. * /How did the story come out?/ * /The game came out as we had hoped./ * /The snapshots came out well./ 5. To announce support or opposition; declare yourself (for or against a person or thing). * /The party leaders came out for an acceptable candidate./ * /Many Congressmen came out against the bill./ 6. See: GO OUT FOR.
[coming-out] <adj.> Introducing a girl to polite society. * /Mary's parents gave her a coming-out party when she was 17./
[come out for] <v. phr.> To support; declare oneself in favor of another, especially during a political election. * /Candidates for the presidency of the United States are anxious for the major newspapers to come out for them./
[come out in the open] <v. phr.> 1. To reveal one's true identity or intentions. * /Fred finally came out in the open and admitted that he was gay./ 2. To declare one's position openly. * /The conservative Democratic candidate came out in the open and declared that he would join the Republican party./
[come out with] <v. phr.> 1. To make a public announcement of; make known. * /He came out with a clear declaration of his principles./ 2. To say. * /He comes out with the funniest remarks you can imagine./
[come over] <v.> To take control of; cause sudden strong feeling in; happen to. * /A sudden fit of anger came over him./ * /A great tenderness came over her./ * /What has come over him?/
[come round] or [come around] <v.> 1. 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./ 2. <informal> To get back health or knowledge of things; get well from sickness or a faint./ * /Someone brought out smelling salts and Mary soon came round./ * /Jim has come around after having had stomach ulcers./ 3. To change direction, * /The wind has come round to the south./ 4. <informal> To change your opinion or purpose to agree with another's. * /Tom came round when Dick told him the whole story./
[come through] <v.>, <informal> To be equal to a demand; meet trouble or a sudden need with success; satisfy a need. * /When the baseball team needed a hit, Willie came through with a double./ * /John needed money for college and his father came through./
[come to] <v.> (stress on "to") 1. To wake up after losing consciousness; get the use of your senses back again after fainting or being knocked out. * /She fainted in the store and found herself in the first aid room when she came to./ * /The boxer who was knocked out did not come to for five minutes./ * /The doctor gave her a pill and after she took it she didn't come to for two days./ Compare: BRING TO. 2. (stress on "come") To get enough familiarity or understanding to; learn to; grow to.
– Used with an infinitive. * /John was selfish at first, but he came to realize that other people counted, too./ * /During her years at the school, Mary came to know that road well./ 3. To result in or change to; reach the point of; arrive at. * /Mr. Smith lived to see his invention come to success./ * /Grandfather doesn't like the way young people act today; he says, "I don't know what the world is coming to."/ 4. To have something to do with; be in the field of; be about.
– Usually used in the phrase "when it comes to". * /Joe is not good in sports, but when it comes to arithmetic he's the best in the class./ * /The school has very good teachers, but when it comes to buildings, the school is poor./
[come to a dead end] <v. phr.> 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./
[come to blows] <v. phr.> To begin to fight. * /The two quarreling boys came to blows after school./ * /The two countries came to blows because one wanted to be independent from the other./
[come to grief] <v. phr.> 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] <v. phr.> 1. To get hold of (another wrestler) in close fighting. * /After circling around for a minute, the two wrestlers came to grips with each other./ 2. To struggle seriously with (an idea or problem). * /Mr. Blake's leaching helps students come to grips with the important ideas in the history lesson./ * /Harry cannot be a leader, because he never quite comes to grips with a problem./ Compare: COME TO TERMS(2).
[come to hand] <v. phr.> To be received or obtained. * /Father's letter was mailed from Florida last week and came to hand today./ * /The new books came to hand today./ * /New information about the boy's disappearance came to hand yesterday./
[come to heel] See: TO HEEL.
[come to life] See: COME ALIVE.
[come to light] <v. phr.> 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./ * /When the old woman died it came to light that she was actually rich./ * /New facts about ancient Egypt have recently come to light./ Compare: BRING TO LIGHT.
[come to mind] <v. phr.> To occur to someone. * /A new idea for the advertising campaign came to mind as I was reading your book./
[come to nothing] also <formal> [come to naught] <v. phr.> To end in failure; fail; be in vain. * /The dog's attempts to climb the tree after the cat came to nothing./
[come to one's senses] <v. phr.> 1. Become conscious again; wake up. * /The boxer was knocked out and did not come to his senses for several minutes./ * /The doctors gave Tom an anesthetic before his operation; then the doctor took out Tom's appendix before he came to his senses./ Compare: COME TO(1). 2. To think clearly; behave as usual or as you should; act sensibly. * /A boy threw a snowball at me and before I could come to my senses he ran away./ * /Don't act so foolishly. Come to your senses!/ Contrast: OUT OF ONE'S HEAD.
[come to pass] <v. phr.>, <literary> To happen; occur. * /Strange things come to pass in troubled times./ * /It came to pass that the jailer visited him by night./ * /His hopes of success did not come to pass./ Compare: BRING TO PASS, COME ABOUT.
[come to terms] <v. phr.> To reach an agreement. * /Management and the labor union came to terms about a new arrangement and a strike was prevented./
[come to the point] or [get to the point] <v. phr.> To talk about the important thing; reach the important facts of the matter; reach the central question or fact. * /Henry was giving a lot of history and explanation, but his father asked him to come to the point./ * /A good newspaper story must come right to the point and save the details for later./ Contrast: BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH.
[come to think of it] <v. phr.>, <informal> As I think again; indeed; really. * /Come to think of it, he has already been given what he needs./ * /Come to think of it, I should write my daughter today./
[come true] <v.> To really happen; change from a dream or a plan into a fact. * /It took years of planning and saving, but their seagoing vacation came true at last./ * /It was a dream come true when he met the President./ * /His hope of living to 100 did not come true./