英语词汇“to come to”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. intransitive. With to.

a. To attain or assume (an office or position of power). Cf. to come into —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > succeed to

to come to ——eOE

inherita1400

succeed1490

to step into ——1609

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > cause to descend by inheritance > inherit

to come to ——eOE

eritage1382

heritage1382

inherita1400

herita1533

to fall heir1701

eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) x. 61 (heading) Hwelc se bion sceal ðe to reccenddome cuman sceal.

a1200 (?OE) Royal Charter: Edward the Confessor to Old Minster, Winchester (Sawyer 1062) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 218 Saule..ealra þara kinge þe tefore me wæron oþþe æfter me cumeð to þise rice.

1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace i. xvi. f. 36 They that come to y^e crowne by enherytaunce..shall not rule so imperyouslie and lordlie ouer theyr subiectes, as shall they that be nowe elected.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 119 This clemencie did hir Maiestie..shewe at hir comming to y^e crowne.

1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) xxvii. 256 If men come to power and Authority by fraud and violence..the case is otherwise.

1674 tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. i. 34 Urban the Second was now come to the Papacy.

1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. 114/1 He came to this Living in 1618; and was..Disposses'd in about 1643.

1766 J. Ussher Free Exam. Common Methods employed to prevent Popery 146 In the course of Providence King Charles II. came to the Throne.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 13 When he came to the crown.

1893 R. Lanciani Pagan & Christian Rome iv. 196 I..resume my description with those who came to power after the peace of the church.

1936 Life 23 Nov. 32/1 Victoria came to the throne a queen in 1837 and died an empress in 1901.

1970 Times 7 Nov. 7/1 He criticized the Nixon Administration's decision on coming to office to drop the practice of ‘jawboning’, or presidential persuasion, on the prices and wages front.

2009 Independent 14 Sept. 33/3 When George I came to the throne, he was 52nd in the line of succession.

†b. To acquire, obtain. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)]

wieldeOE

haveeOE

ofgoOE

oweOE

addlec1175

winc1175

avela1200

to come by ——a1225

covera1250

oughtc1275

reachc1275

hentc1300

purchasec1300

to come to ——c1330

getc1330

pickc1330

chevise1340

fang1340

umbracec1350

chacche1362

perceivea1382

accroacha1393

achievea1393

to come at ——a1393

areach1393

recovera1398

encroach?a1400

chevec1400

enquilec1400

obtainc1422

recurec1425

to take upc1425

acquirea1450

encheve1470

sortise1474

conques?a1500

tain1501

report1508

conquest1513

possess1526

compare1532

cough1550

coff1559

fall1568

reap1581

acquist1592

accrue1594

appurchasec1600

recoil1632

to get at ——1666

to come into ——1672

rise1754

net1765

to fall in for1788

to scare up1846

access1953

c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 308 Y loue þing y no may com to.

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 I can not teache you to make a bowe or a shafte, whiche belongeth to a bowyer and a fletcher to comme to theyr lyuyng.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. P2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) It is requisite you proue, either that you had them by chaunce..or otherwise that by some gift you came to them.

†c. To gain possession of (money or property), esp. by inheritance. Cf. to come into —— 1b at Phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way

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to come to ——1607

1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. sig. H T'vse his fortune, With reuerence, when he comes to it.

1609 W. Holbrooke No Gaine to this 30 If we cannot shew godlinesse for a warrant, how we came to our riches, we shall proue, no better then theeues.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 113. ⁋3 I came to my Estate in my Twenty second Year.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 11 What a pity it is the 'Squire is not come to his own.

1871 Sat. Rev. 29 Apr. 538/2 She..ends by accepting..Gregory, having actually refused Ralph after he comes to his inheritance.

2. intransitive. to come to one's senses (or oneself).

a. To recover consciousness; to become conscious again after sleep, a swoon, etc. Cf. to come to 4 at Phrasal verbs 1, to come to one's memory at memory n. Phrases 3b.

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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Ac þanne he heþ y-slepe and comþ to him-zelue.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 122 She felle doun in a swoune... And whan the duchesse was come agen to herselfe.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 520 She fell downe amazed: and beyng come to hir selfe agayne, sayde vnto them, [etc.].

1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine x. sig. C2^v By this time, the Prouost [dazeled by the fury of Blanchardines stroke] came to his sences.

1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 16 The hurt person comming to his senses, cleared me, telling how it came, and by whom.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 Feb. (1974) VIII. 48 He was fallen down all along upon the ground, dead... He did presently come to himself.

1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 337 When she was come to her self enough to talk again.

1758 E. Kimber Life Capt. Neville Frowde iii. 140 Thus he continued for near a Day and a half, when, by some Administrations of our excellent Surgeon, he came to himself.

1805 M. Edgeworth Lottery iii. in Pop. Tales (ed. 2) II. 61 The surgeon arrived: he set her leg, and, during this operation, she came to her senses.

1890 S. R. Gardiner in Dict. National Biogr. XXII. 319/1 At the news of the execution of Charles I he [sc. Montrose] fainted, and when he came to himself swore to avenge him.

1921 Open Road Mar. 19/2 The pain..had made me faint. When I came to my senses again I was in pitch darkness lying flat on my back.

1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning i. 19 I came to myself and the darkened bedroom... Bewildered, I called my husband and asked him how long I'd been asleep.

2012 Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Rec. (Nexis) 16 Oct. The woman..had apparently fallen, hitting her head. When she came to herself, she called the police and reported the robbery.

b. To think or behave reasonably following a period of foolishness, irrationality, or madness; to recover from a fit, outburst, or state marked by overpowering emotion or excitement. Also to come to one's right mind.

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the mind > emotion > calmness > be calm [phrase] > compose or make calm

to set at resta1413

to come to one's senses (or oneself)c1450

c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. vi, in Anglia (1885) 8 139 (MED) Whanne she comen to hirselfe ageyne as after a moystnesse of mynde..if she myghte perceyue þat she hadde excedid neuer so litil, she shroue hir wiþ a wondirful contricyone of herte.

1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke xv. D Then he came to him selfe [1526 remembred hym silfe] and sayde, how many hyred seruantes at my fathers, have breed ynough, & I dye for honger.

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles ii. f. xix^v Nabuchodonosor..was become madde & woodde... Daniel prayed God for him, and he was restored: afterward comminge to hys ryght mynde agayn from hys wyckednesse.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Gg.iiii^v I woulde sooner haue beleaued he had bine continent, if he had declared any token to haue bine come to his right senses again, and in that case haue vsed continencie.

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxi. 410 So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie: And things will seeme farre otherwise vnto vs, if we once come to our senses againe, and shall better bethinke vs.

a1708 W. Beveridge Nature & Necessity Restitution (1711) 9 Zaccheus..being come to himself as soon as Christ was come into his House.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. ii. 173 But at last having vented the first Torrent of Passion, he came a little to himself .

1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vi. 128 He came a little to his senses, (for love is a phrenzy), and began to behave like a common man.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times xiii. 99 She just mutters and stares... When she comes to her right mind once more, I shall have done what I can.

1883 W. Black Yolande III. vii. 129 The people..may come to their senses.

1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain vii. 399 It was unstoppable, unless Chet came to himself, got a decent job up in Idaho.

1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder i. 2 I came to my senses and realised that Tia wasn't a reincarnation of my mother at all, but only a lookalike.

2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 4 He started to feel as if..a voice in his head was telling him to get a knife from the kitchen and hurt Dawn. After he came to himself he said he realised he had done something awful.

3. intransitive. To dedicate or submit oneself to (God, Christ, etc.); to accept as the one true saviour.

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c1350 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 111 (MED) Com to crist..for þe was hys blod ysched.

1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Ciii The grete loue & desyre yt he had to be with cryste made hym glad to take trybylacyons whiche he knewe was the waye to come to cryste.

a1540 R. Barnes All Men Bounde to receiue Holy Communion in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 273/2 Doth hee not learne all men to come to Christe?

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvii. f. ciiii^v For no man commeth to God that is not smytten with some feare.

1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) 142 Such were Babel builders, till heathen came to God.

1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 198 There is an effectual perswading, overcoming and victorious work of the Spirit upon the hearts and wills of sinners, under which they come to Jesus Christ.

1788 S. Deacon Attempt to Answer Important Question 43 O, come to Jesus! trust him as thy Saviour.

1816 J. Allen Spiritual Expos. Old Test. (2 Kings v. 9–16) 811 If the Lord prevail upon you to..lay down your own wisdom, and come to the Lord Jesus.., you would find your sin..washed away, and yourselves converted.

1872 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XVII. 16 Rely upon him, trust in him as having suffered in your stead... This is to come to Jesus.

1931 115th Ann. Rep. Amer. Bible Soc. 150 After her earnest and loving appeal to come to God, prisoners..have wept and prayed their way to forgiveness and a new life.

1991 Healing & Wholeness Jan. 25/1 Evangelicals have loved to invite worshippers to ‘come to Christ’ at gospel services.

2009 N.Y. Times 26 Apr. a15/2 When a student pastor invited the unsaved to come to Jesus, Lobdell fell into the Lord's arms at last.

4. intransitive.

a. To amount to, be as much as (a specified sum, quantity, etc.).

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the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > amount or be equal to

goeOE

risec1175

amount1399

mountc1400

to come to ——?a1425

draw1425

reach1431

to run to ——1528

surmount1551

to come unto ——1562

arise1594

to equivalize account1647

tell1671

sum1721

reckon1783

count1819

number1842

to add up1850

to add up to1853

to work out1867

total1880

to tot up1882

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 104 Þe somme..commez to fyue hundreth thowsand florenez.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 63 It wole come to sixti þousand mark þat he robbiþ of þe kingis lige men.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v The dayes of the pilgrimage of my lyfe..come nat to the dayes of my forefathers.

1585 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 431 That the samyn [drink] be browin thynner as cumis to threttie twa gallouns the boll.

1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 303 S. Chrysostome had Pontus, Asia, and all Thrace in his parish, even as much as came to sixteen prefectures.

1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 76 Let us put it all together, and see what it 'twill come to.

1777 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize I. i. ix. 114 5.6875 cwt. is reduced to a decimal of a ton by dividing by 20, and comes to .284375.

1885 Law Times Rep. 52 671/1 The proceeds of the sale came to over 5000l.

1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxii. 314 The total annual product of the nation..would not have come to more than three or four hundred dollars per head.

1925 E. A. Powell Beyond Utmost Purple Rim iv. 85 The cost of transporting our belongings would come to a by no means insignificant sum.

1963 New Scientist 11 July 96/2 The available payload comes to 120 tons.

2007 A. Konstam Salerno 1943 157 The total comes to a little over 12,000 men.

b. To amount to in price, to be worth, to cost.

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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [verb (transitive)] > be priced at

be1484

to come to ——1577

to lie in1622

1577 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1 58 For a chalyshe wayng xx oz. d at vs. vjd. the ounze comynge to vl. xijs. viijd.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 74 In Barbary sir, it cannot come to so much.

a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 52 The Gallon of Milk comes but to a Farthing.

1727 P. Aubin tr. R. Challes Illustrious French Lovers II. 295 The postman brought a great Packet of Letters for him the next day, which came to four Shillings the Postage.

1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. xii. 429 The piece comes to but fifteen pounds.

1809 J. O.'Raw Let. 1 Apr. in K. Miller et al. Irish Immigrants in Land of Canaan (2003) 98 My part with my sea Store came to 40 dollars.

1831 J. Cochran Let. 20 Aug. in Emigrant's Guide (1832) 113 My board, attendance and washing comes to three dollars per week.

1930 W. C. Nason Rural Buildings for Business & Social Uses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1622) 21 New furnishings came to $1,000.

1973 Ski Sept. 63/2 At Kitzbuhel, their lift tickets came to $3 per person per day.

2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Journeys section) 4 For the four of us, lunch came to less than 800 pesos.

5. intransitive.

a. To amount in significance or effect to (nothing, little, etc.)See also to come to naught at naught pron. 2b, to come to nothing at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 8, to come to nought at nought pron. 2b, to come to (also off with) the worse at worse adj. and n. Phrases 2g, to come to the worst at worst adj. and n. Phrases 1b(a).

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the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > end in

to stand to ——OE

turnc1175

end?c1225

to come to ——c1475

sort1548

c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 9 (MED) Eche beestis soule dieþ and comeþ to nouȝt, whanne þe beest dieþ.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xix. B All the of Egipte, all the policie of their Moates & diches shal come to naught.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 233 This voyage..came to nothing.

1611 Bible (King James) Hag. i. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little.

1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 88 Your engagement against or seeking..will come to nothing.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 123 Not one Grain of that I sow'd this Time came to any Thing.

1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iv. vii. 55 Such foolish councils..Must end in wordy words, and come to nought.

1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 239 An' I am to lose by ye, I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling—Sae, an' it come to the warst, I'se e'en lay the head o' the sow to the tail o' the grice.

1879 A. Trollope Eye for Eye I. ii. 30 I hope that it may come to nothing, but I think that you ought to know.

1903 V. Bell Let. 15 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1993) 10 I really think I have put down all I can remember of his sayings about Art. I don't know that they really come to much and perhaps they will only bore you.

1984 Times 5 Dec. 19/6 The talks came to nought.

2008 Observer (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Mag.) 9 So you face the final curtain. The whisper therapy came to nada. The shared judo lessons came to zilch.

†b. as that comes to: (in a comparison with something just mentioned or implied) ‘as that’, ‘as all that’. Obsolete.

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1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxxvii. 222/2 His creating of vs, is not onely to abstaine from evill: (for stones and trees and other senselesse things doe as much as that comes to:) but wee must gue and applye our selves to the doing of good.

1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A2^v I am contented to hazzard among them, so much of my reputation, as that comes to.

1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. i. 24 I'le tempt as great a danger as that comes to.

1685 J. Northleigh Triumph Monarchy iii. 426 His Remarks upon Ανθρωπινὴ κτίσις will tell us that he understood as much Greek as that came to.

1749 D. Garrick Lethe: Dramatic Satire 20 I an't so young and so foolish as that comes to, to be directed by my Husband.

1756 Monitor No. 39 ⁋4 Mrs. Bull is not so bad a wife, as that comes to.

1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 327 You don't eat any thing. What, is your leg so bad as that comes to?

1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. iv. 49 I am not exactly such a pig as that comes to.

1896 H. James Other House (1897) xvi. 141 Everything's strange—and the truest things are the strangest. Besides, it isn't so extraordinary as that comes to.

c. to come to the same thing and variants: to be equivalent in significance or effect, to amount to the same thing.

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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be equivalent

amountc1390

to pass for (also as)1463

to come to one purpose1489

weigh1529

to pass muster1573

parallel1626

tantamount1628

to come to the same1643

coextenda1711

muster1820

1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iii. 64 It will come to the same thing by undenyable deductions from his owne grounds.

1662 P. du Moulin tr. Novelty of Popery viii. ix. i. 668 What he saith, comes to the same thing that we say.

1741 G. Turnbull tr. J. G. Heineccius Methodical Syst. Universal Law I. i. iii. 62 Conformity to Reason, or which comes to the same thing, to our rational nature.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 92 It comes to the same thing, said I.

1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 12 It comes nearly to the same thing in the end.

1877 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 6 Oct. 213/2 He would call it excess of income over expenditure, which came to much the same thing.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1297 With the squamosal or with the temporal, which comes to the same thing, the lower jaw or mandible articulates.

1965 B. Barry Polit. Argument (1990) i. 10 One may ‘appraise’ a person, which comes to much the same as ‘weighing him up’.

2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 14 Most of our relations are not real relations either, though my mammy says it comes to the same thing.

d. To amount in significance or effect to (a particular point, fact, matter at hand, etc.); to be essentially or ultimately a matter of. Cf. to come down 10a at Phrasal verbs 1.

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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > be occupied with a topic [verb (intransitive)] > be a matter of

to come down1674

to come to ——1879

1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xix. 178 The first [dispute] really came to the question whether the bishops..were subjects of the king or of the Pope.

1907 S. C. Bryant Stories to tell Children p. xliii This is what it all comes to, ultimately: the teacher of young children must be a person who can speak English as it should be spoken.

1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. vi. 244 Rodney explained that..he'd always supposed..that it would come to money in the end.

2001 S. King Dreamcatcher iii. 103 Funny to compare the ending of your life to a sneeze, but that was probably what it came to. Just kerchoo , and then hello darkness, my old friend.

6. intransitive.

a. when (also if) it comes to it and variants: when (or if) the time comes for essential, decisive, or important action; should it become (absolutely) necessary; ultimately.

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1630 J. Gaule Practique Theories Abrahams Entertainm. Angels 25 In all offices, men are forward at first; but when it comes to it, who so backward as they?

1643 J. Caryl Expos. 3 First Chaps. Iob ii. 242 Doe not barter away your lives upon mean rates... If it comes to it..sell your lives as deare as you can.

1689 Refl. Late Great Revol. 2 His [sc. God's] Proposal to Abraham was only for Trial; for you see, he would not permit him to kill his Son when it came to it.

1867 E. S. Elliot Copsley Ann. ii. 43 I thought so! When it comes to it you're just like any other girl.

1905 S. C. Comstock Rebel Prince xxvi. 413 Hugh an' I had agreed to make a dash for it with her, an' should it come to it, had sworn to kill Mademoiselle, rather than that she should fall into the hands of this horde.

1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half ii. 45 I could have lent him some of my pyjamas, if it comes to that.

1948 H. Drake-Brockman Sydney or Bush 261 At the last Bill gripped her hand on the wheel. ‘If it comes to it, Bren, take care of yourself as well as the kids.’

1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet (1990) v. 283 Was Irina right to think that ‘when it came to it’ Marcus might oppose the marriage?

2008 R. Miller Private Lives Pippa Lee 5 But as long as Pippa keeps making that butterflied lamb, I'll even caddie for you, if that's what it comes to.

2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Business section) 37 We do not discriminate and are very proud of our record in this area which, if it comes to it, we will robustly defend.

b. colloquial. †if you come to that (obsolete), come to that: if that is the case; for that matter; anyway.

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1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 141 I only offer to purchase to make things easy and oblige him—though I don't see what compliment I am under, if you come to that.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiv. 292 I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that.

1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/1 Why in snakes should anybody want to be a sculptor, if you come to that?

1942 Penguin New Writing 12 84 He was plumb scared of war. Come to that, so am I.

1964 R. Jeffries Embarrassing Death iii. 21 You don't want to be nice for this job—or for any other job, come to that.

2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 45/1 This narrative from a woman's perspective is tone-true. So, come to that, was Tóibín's well-received novel Brooklyn.

c. when it comes to ——: (used to introduce or qualify a statement) so far as (a matter or subject) is concerned.

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1889 Harper's Mag. Mar. 561/1 A man must dismiss all thoughts of..common-sense when it comes to masquerade dresses, and just sail in and make an unmitigated fool of himself.

1898 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1897 427 The intelligent farmer of today has got beyond trading ‘sight unseen’ or ‘buying a cat in a bag’ when it comes to fertilizers.

1904 St. Nicholas July 793/2 When it comes to rapid growing, no other garden vegetable compares with the squashvine.

1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods viii. 220 He's often hardboiled in his attitude toward his own kind, but when it comes to animals, he's just a bowl of custard.

1985 W. A. Donohue Polit. Amer. Civil Liberties Union v. 339 When it comes to crime control, it is clear what remedies the ACLU opposes.

2012 P. Druckerman Bringing up Bébé xiii. 226 When it comes to parenting she's the boss, full stop.

7. intransitive. what is —— coming to? and variants: used as a rhetorical expression of dismay, disgust, or incredulity at a perceived deterioration in the state or condition of ——. Also occasionally what is coming to ——?. Cf. what is the world coming to? at world n. 3a.

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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > expression of dismay [phrase]

what is —— coming to?1656

1656 tr. M. Maier Themis Aurea xix. 130 O harsh times, O evill manners! what is the world come to when slanders shall pass for Truths?

1693 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master (ed. 2) v. i. 64 How! is the World come to that? a Man cannot keep a Wench without Articles and Settlements.

1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses 24 'Sdeath! what am I come to, to be Affronted so by my Tradesmen?

1795 Tribune 18 Apr. 140 O what are we come to when all our calculations are employed upon pounds, shillings and pence.

1834 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 11th Parl.) 3 2655/1 Good God! What have we come to? This is really worse than any Tory Government I have ever witnessed.

1863 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 555/1 Are you going to turn curmudgeon, too..? I don't know what's coming to the world!

1886 Secular Rev. 19 June 395/1 What are things coming to when a large and influential daily newspaper..ventures to write thus of such an anti-Christ as Saladin?

1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. (1910) xxii. 270 I don't know what's coming to women nowadays... I never used to have any trouble with them.

1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxii. 275 What was she come to? She, Margaret Messenger, renowned throughout the country for her mental and moral pulchritude, had descended to the level of a drab.

1938 ‘G. Graham’ Swiss Sonata 182 What's this school coming to?

2003 K. Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen ii. i. 51 When man have party people suppose to dance, not stand up and chat. What de arse this generation coming to?

8. intransitive. to come to oneself: (of a racehorse) to mature, to reach top form or performance.

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1987 Times 15 Dec. 37/6 The Thinker is a horse who doesn't come to himself until Christmas or afterwards, and I am not happy enough with him to give him a race yet.

1993 Racing Post 8 Aug. 28/4 Cumani's filly had good form at two and, although disappointing on her Kempton comeback, has been given time to come to herself.

2004 Racing Ahead June 13/1 The trainer is therefore taking it slowly, while the horse comes to himself.

2016 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 12 Feb. Saint Are is really starting to come to himself, he's definitely a spring horse.

单词	to come to
释义	> as lemmas to come to to come to †1. intransitive. To arrive, to be present. Obsolete (archaic and rare after Middle English). [Compare tocome v.] In quot. OE¹: to reach a goal or desired end.In quot. 1827 imperative, contrasted with to go to 1b at go v. Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] to come toOE comeOE yworthOE lend11.. lightc1225 overtakec1225 redea1275 wina1300 'rivec1300 repaira1325 applyc1384 to come ina1399 arrivec1400 attainc1400 alightc1405 to come to handc1450 unto-comec1450 apport1578 to get through1589 reach1591 to be along1597 land1679 engage1686 to get in1863 to breeze in1930 society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive at or reach [verb (transitive)] to come toOE reachOE hita1075 ofreachlOE catchc1330 latchc1330 recovera1375 getc1390 henta1393 win?1473 fetch1589 to fetch up1589 obtain1589 attainc1592 make1610 gaina1616 arrive1647 advene1684 strike1798 OE Resignation A 21 Ic þa bote gemon, cyninga wuldor, cume to, gif ic mot. OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. vi. 10 Adueniat regnum tuum : cume to þin rice [OE Lindisf. Gospels tocymeð ric ðin]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 9897 Forr þa wass cumenn to þatt crist. Þa shollde cumenn newenn. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xxvi. 60 Whenne many fals witnessis hadden cummen to. 1827 R. M. Bird Cowled Lover & Other Plays (1941) ii. iii. 21 Maude. Go to, knave. And why so sudden? Carlo. Come to, wench: thus. †2. intransitive. To change from one side or point of view to another (often the speaker's), esp. as a result of persuasion; to change to a more favourable opinion or mood; = to come round 5b at Phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete (chiefly regional in later use). N.E.D. (1891) states: ‘still common dialectally’. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > bringing about concord or peace > become at peace with each other [verb (intransitive)] > be reconciled to or come to agreement with another to make peacea1350 compoundc1547 temporize1587 adjust1612 composea1616 accommodate1642 redintegrate1655 to come to1709 to split the difference1713 arrange1796 to mend (or look after) one's fences1959 the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > be cheerful [verb (intransitive)] > become cheerful or cheer up cheer?1553 to look up1600 come1607 to cheer up1620 exhilarate1620 brighten1692 to come to1765 to come about1775 spurk1823 to hearten up1834 to buck up1844 chirk1844 pearten1851 to come around1853 to liven up1863 to chipper up1867 lighten1873 pep1910 to lighten up1911 1709 J. Swift Mrs. Harris's Petition in Baucis & Philemon (new ed.) 14 What if after all my Chaplain won't come to? 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. viii. 225 I thought she was a just coming to . View more context for this quotation 1765 J. Logan in Mem. Hist. Soc. Pennsylvania (1872) X. 8 For a long time behaved oddly, but he has come to again. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Cum When there is reason to suppose that he will at length comply, it is said ‘He'll come to yet.’ 1841 S. Warren Ten Thousand a-Year III. v. 186 When you're once out o' the house, they'll come to, and make up their mind to it. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Come to, to become friendly. ‘He would n't speak one while, but he 's comed to now.’ 1929 Boys' Life Jan. 8/3 ‘If he can convince them that Oakhurst is the hardest nut they ever cracked, they'll come to and win.’ ‘They may come to,’ laughed Sam..‘but they'll still have a game to win.’ †3. intransitive. Nautical. To come to a standstill, rest, or fixed position; (also) to sail close to the wind. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (intransitive)] > head in a certain course or direction > come to a standstill to bring to1697 to come to1726 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 95 In the fright he had forgot he had a graplin in the boat to come to with. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Rarrivée, the movement of coming to, after having fallen off, when a ship is lying-by or trying. 1805 A. Duncan Mariner's Chron. III. 225 They resolved, being near shoal water..to come-to, and rest themselves for the night. 1861 in Abstr. Cruise Steam Frigate Wabash (1863) 5 H. B. M.'s corvette racer came to, and anchored near us; her commander paid us a visit. 1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance ii. v. 87 There was a great volley of cracks from the loose sails, and the ship came to. 4. intransitive. To revive, recover; esp. to recover from a swoon, faint, etc.; to regain consciousness. Cf. to come to one's senses (or oneself) at Phrasal verbs 2, to come round 6 at Phrasal verbs 1.The following much earlier example of coming-to, only attested later in a different sense, is probably explicable as an error or misreading rather than as the gerundial use of this sense: a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. (1587) iii. 535 Though I be not yet in perfect health, yet I thanke God I feele my self in very good health in the comming to [1561 N. Throckmorton in very good wayes therunto, and trust tencrease daily therein more and more; 1644 in a very good case, and in way of a full recoverie]. ΚΠ 1805 J. Ffirth Experience & Gospel Labours of Benjamin Abbott ii. 126 The power of the Lord struck a baptist woman to the floor, and when she came to, she exhorted the people to believe. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. xii. 201 Isabel was the first to come to. 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations I. iv. 49 He had just been all but choked, and had that moment come to. 1879 R. Browning Ivan Ivanovitch in Idyls I. 55 Chafe away, keep chafing, for she moans: She's coming to! 1910 E. S. Phelps Empty House 62 Joe had come home very drunk the night before..and was ‘coming to’, after supper, in a ferocious mood. 1976 A. Haley Roots (1977) xlviii. 234 He came to in his hut, and along with his senses pain returned. 2008 Metro (Nexis) 3 June (Glasgow ed.) 14 I blacked out. When I came to, the windscreen had come in on top of me. extracted from comev. to come to —— to come to —— 1. intransitive. With to. a. To attain or assume (an office or position of power). Cf. to come into —— 1a at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > succeed to to come to ——eOE inherita1400 succeed1490 to step into ——1609 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > cause to descend by inheritance > inherit to come to ——eOE eritage1382 heritage1382 inherita1400 herita1533 to fall heir1701 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) x. 61 (heading) Hwelc se bion sceal ðe to reccenddome cuman sceal. a1200 (?OE) Royal Charter: Edward the Confessor to Old Minster, Winchester (Sawyer 1062) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 218 Saule..ealra þara kinge þe tefore me wæron oþþe æfter me cumeð to þise rice. 1535 W. Marshall tr. Marsilius of Padua Def. of Peace i. xvi. f. 36 They that come to y^e crowne by enherytaunce..shall not rule so imperyouslie and lordlie ouer theyr subiectes, as shall they that be nowe elected. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 119 This clemencie did hir Maiestie..shewe at hir comming to y^e crowne. 1648 E. Symmons Vindic. King Charles (new ed.) xxvii. 256 If men come to power and Authority by fraud and violence..the case is otherwise. 1674 tr. N. Machiavelli Florentine Hist. i. 34 Urban the Second was now come to the Papacy. 1714 J. Walker Attempt Acct. Sufferings Clergy Church of Eng. 114/1 He came to this Living in 1618; and was..Disposses'd in about 1643. 1766 J. Ussher Free Exam. Common Methods employed to prevent Popery 146 In the course of Providence King Charles II. came to the Throne. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 13 When he came to the crown. 1893 R. Lanciani Pagan & Christian Rome iv. 196 I..resume my description with those who came to power after the peace of the church. 1936 Life 23 Nov. 32/1 Victoria came to the throne a queen in 1837 and died an empress in 1901. 1970 Times 7 Nov. 7/1 He criticized the Nixon Administration's decision on coming to office to drop the practice of ‘jawboning’, or presidential persuasion, on the prices and wages front. 2009 Independent 14 Sept. 33/3 When George I came to the throne, he was 52nd in the line of succession. †b. To acquire, obtain. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE haveeOE ofgoOE oweOE addlec1175 winc1175 avela1200 to come by ——a1225 covera1250 oughtc1275 reachc1275 hentc1300 purchasec1300 to come to ——c1330 getc1330 pickc1330 chevise1340 fang1340 umbracec1350 chacche1362 perceivea1382 accroacha1393 achievea1393 to come at ——a1393 areach1393 recovera1398 encroach?a1400 chevec1400 enquilec1400 obtainc1422 recurec1425 to take upc1425 acquirea1450 encheve1470 sortise1474 conques?a1500 tain1501 report1508 conquest1513 possess1526 compare1532 cough1550 coff1559 fall1568 reap1581 acquist1592 accrue1594 appurchasec1600 recoil1632 to get at ——1666 to come into ——1672 rise1754 net1765 to fall in for1788 to scare up1846 access1953 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 308 Y loue þing y no may com to. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 12 I can not teache you to make a bowe or a shafte, whiche belongeth to a bowyer and a fletcher to comme to theyr lyuyng. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. P2^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) It is requisite you proue, either that you had them by chaunce..or otherwise that by some gift you came to them. †c. To gain possession of (money or property), esp. by inheritance. Cf. to come into —— 1b at Phrasal verbs 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way getc1450 to come to ——1607 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. vii. sig. H T'vse his fortune, With reuerence, when he comes to it. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Holbrooke No Gaine to this 30 If we cannot shew godlinesse for a warrant, how we came to our riches, we shall proue, no better then theeues. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 113. ⁋3 I came to my Estate in my Twenty second Year. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 11 What a pity it is the 'Squire is not come to his own. 1871 Sat. Rev. 29 Apr. 538/2 She..ends by accepting..Gregory, having actually refused Ralph after he comes to his inheritance. 2. intransitive. to come to one's senses (or oneself). a. To recover consciousness; to become conscious again after sleep, a swoon, etc. Cf. to come to 4 at Phrasal verbs 1, to come to one's memory at memory n. Phrases 3b. ΚΠ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Ac þanne he heþ y-slepe and comþ to him-zelue. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) iv. 122 She felle doun in a swoune... And whan the duchesse was come agen to herselfe. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 520 She fell downe amazed: and beyng come to hir selfe agayne, sayde vnto them, [etc.]. 1595 Blanchardine & Eglantine x. sig. C2^v By this time, the Prouost [dazeled by the fury of Blanchardines stroke] came to his sences. 1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 16 The hurt person comming to his senses, cleared me, telling how it came, and by whom. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 7 Feb. (1974) VIII. 48 He was fallen down all along upon the ground, dead... He did presently come to himself. 1723 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack (ed. 2) 337 When she was come to her self enough to talk again. 1758 E. Kimber Life Capt. Neville Frowde iii. 140 Thus he continued for near a Day and a half, when, by some Administrations of our excellent Surgeon, he came to himself. 1805 M. Edgeworth Lottery iii. in Pop. Tales (ed. 2) II. 61 The surgeon arrived: he set her leg, and, during this operation, she came to her senses. 1890 S. R. Gardiner in Dict. National Biogr. XXII. 319/1 At the news of the execution of Charles I he [sc. Montrose] fainted, and when he came to himself swore to avenge him. 1921 Open Road Mar. 19/2 The pain..had made me faint. When I came to my senses again I was in pitch darkness lying flat on my back. 1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning i. 19 I came to myself and the darkened bedroom... Bewildered, I called my husband and asked him how long I'd been asleep. 2012 Chico (Calif.) Enterprise-Rec. (Nexis) 16 Oct. The woman..had apparently fallen, hitting her head. When she came to herself, she called the police and reported the robbery. b. To think or behave reasonably following a period of foolishness, irrationality, or madness; to recover from a fit, outburst, or state marked by overpowering emotion or excitement. Also to come to one's right mind. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > calmness > be calm [phrase] > compose or make calm to set at resta1413 to come to one's senses (or oneself)c1450 c1450 (?c1425) St. Mary of Oignies i. vi, in Anglia (1885) 8 139 (MED) Whanne she comen to hirselfe ageyne as after a moystnesse of mynde..if she myghte perceyue þat she hadde excedid neuer so litil, she shroue hir wiþ a wondirful contricyone of herte. 1534 Bible (Tyndale rev. Joye) Luke xv. D Then he came to him selfe [1526 remembred hym silfe] and sayde, how many hyred seruantes at my fathers, have breed ynough, & I dye for honger. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles ii. f. xix^v Nabuchodonosor..was become madde & woodde... Daniel prayed God for him, and he was restored: afterward comminge to hys ryght mynde agayn from hys wyckednesse. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Gg.iiii^v I woulde sooner haue beleaued he had bine continent, if he had declared any token to haue bine come to his right senses again, and in that case haue vsed continencie. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xxxi. 410 So long as our pulse panted, and we feele any concitation, so long remit we the partie: And things will seeme farre otherwise vnto vs, if we once come to our senses againe, and shall better bethinke vs. a1708 W. Beveridge Nature & Necessity Restitution (1711) 9 Zaccheus..being come to himself as soon as Christ was come into his House. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones VI. xviii. ii. 173 But at last having vented the first Torrent of Passion, he came a little to himself . View more context for this quotation 1792 H. H. Brackenridge Mod. Chivalry I. vi. 128 He came a little to his senses, (for love is a phrenzy), and began to behave like a common man. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times xiii. 99 She just mutters and stares... When she comes to her right mind once more, I shall have done what I can. 1883 W. Black Yolande III. vii. 129 The people..may come to their senses. 1943 W. Stegner Big Rock Candy Mountain vii. 399 It was unstoppable, unless Chet came to himself, got a decent job up in Idaho. 1991 A. Campbell Sidewinder i. 2 I came to my senses and realised that Tia wasn't a reincarnation of my mother at all, but only a lookalike. 2015 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Apr. 4 He started to feel as if..a voice in his head was telling him to get a knife from the kitchen and hurt Dawn. After he came to himself he said he realised he had done something awful. 3. intransitive. To dedicate or submit oneself to (God, Christ, etc.); to accept as the one true saviour. ΚΠ c1350 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 14th Cent. (1924) 111 (MED) Com to crist..for þe was hys blod ysched. 1496 Rote or Myrour Consolacyon & Conforte (de Worde) sig. Ciii The grete loue & desyre yt he had to be with cryste made hym glad to take trybylacyons whiche he knewe was the waye to come to cryste. a1540 R. Barnes All Men Bounde to receiue Holy Communion in W. Tyndale et al. Wks. (1573) ii. 273/2 Doth hee not learne all men to come to Christe? 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xvii. f. ciiii^v For no man commeth to God that is not smytten with some feare. 1610 H. Broughton Reuelation Holy Apocalyps (new ed.) 142 Such were Babel builders, till heathen came to God. 1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace ix. 198 There is an effectual perswading, overcoming and victorious work of the Spirit upon the hearts and wills of sinners, under which they come to Jesus Christ. 1788 S. Deacon Attempt to Answer Important Question 43 O, come to Jesus! trust him as thy Saviour. 1816 J. Allen Spiritual Expos. Old Test. (2 Kings v. 9–16) 811 If the Lord prevail upon you to..lay down your own wisdom, and come to the Lord Jesus.., you would find your sin..washed away, and yourselves converted. 1872 C. H. Spurgeon Metrop. Tabernacle Pulpit XVII. 16 Rely upon him, trust in him as having suffered in your stead... This is to come to Jesus. 1931 115th Ann. Rep. Amer. Bible Soc. 150 After her earnest and loving appeal to come to God, prisoners..have wept and prayed their way to forgiveness and a new life. 1991 Healing & Wholeness Jan. 25/1 Evangelicals have loved to invite worshippers to ‘come to Christ’ at gospel services. 2009 N.Y. Times 26 Apr. a15/2 When a student pastor invited the unsaved to come to Jesus, Lobdell fell into the Lord's arms at last. 4. intransitive. a. To amount to, be as much as (a specified sum, quantity, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > amount or be equal to goeOE risec1175 amount1399 mountc1400 to come to ——?a1425 draw1425 reach1431 to run to ——1528 surmount1551 to come unto ——1562 arise1594 to equivalize account1647 tell1671 sum1721 reckon1783 count1819 number1842 to add up1850 to add up to1853 to work out1867 total1880 to tot up1882 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 104 Þe somme..commez to fyue hundreth thowsand florenez. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 63 It wole come to sixti þousand mark þat he robbiþ of þe kingis lige men. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Eii^v The dayes of the pilgrimage of my lyfe..come nat to the dayes of my forefathers. 1585 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1882) IV. 431 That the samyn [drink] be browin thynner as cumis to threttie twa gallouns the boll. 1642 Bp. J. Taylor Of Sacred Order Episcopacy 303 S. Chrysostome had Pontus, Asia, and all Thrace in his parish, even as much as came to sixteen prefectures. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 76 Let us put it all together, and see what it 'twill come to. 1777 R. Hamilton Introd. Merchandize I. i. ix. 114 5.6875 cwt. is reduced to a decimal of a ton by dividing by 20, and comes to .284375. 1885 Law Times Rep. 52 671/1 The proceeds of the sale came to over 5000l. 1888 E. Bellamy Looking Backward xxii. 314 The total annual product of the nation..would not have come to more than three or four hundred dollars per head. 1925 E. A. Powell Beyond Utmost Purple Rim iv. 85 The cost of transporting our belongings would come to a by no means insignificant sum. 1963 New Scientist 11 July 96/2 The available payload comes to 120 tons. 2007 A. Konstam Salerno 1943 157 The total comes to a little over 12,000 men. b. To amount to in price, to be worth, to cost. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > [verb (transitive)] > be priced at be1484 to come to ——1577 to lie in1622 1577 in Trans. Shropshire Archæol. Soc. (1878) 1 58 For a chalyshe wayng xx oz. d at vs. vjd. the ounze comynge to vl. xijs. viijd. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 74 In Barbary sir, it cannot come to so much. View more context for this quotation a1687 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland (1691) 52 The Gallon of Milk comes but to a Farthing. 1727 P. Aubin tr. R. Challes Illustrious French Lovers II. 295 The postman brought a great Packet of Letters for him the next day, which came to four Shillings the Postage. 1796 F. Burney Camilla IV. viii. xii. 429 The piece comes to but fifteen pounds. 1809 J. O.'Raw Let. 1 Apr. in K. Miller et al. Irish Immigrants in Land of Canaan (2003) 98 My part with my sea Store came to 40 dollars. 1831 J. Cochran Let. 20 Aug. in Emigrant's Guide (1832) 113 My board, attendance and washing comes to three dollars per week. 1930 W. C. Nason Rural Buildings for Business & Social Uses (U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1622) 21 New furnishings came to $1,000. 1973 Ski Sept. 63/2 At Kitzbuhel, their lift tickets came to $3 per person per day. 2013 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. (Journeys section) 4 For the four of us, lunch came to less than 800 pesos. 5. intransitive. a. To amount in significance or effect to (nothing, little, etc.)See also to come to naught at naught pron. 2b, to come to nothing at nothing pron., n., adv., and int. Phrases 8, to come to nought at nought pron. 2b, to come to (also off with) the worse at worse adj. and n. Phrases 2g, to come to the worst at worst adj. and n. Phrases 1b(a). ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > [verb (transitive)] > end in to stand to ——OE turnc1175 end?c1225 to come to ——c1475 sort1548 c1475 (c1445) R. Pecock Donet (1921) 9 (MED) Eche beestis soule dieþ and comeþ to nouȝt, whanne þe beest dieþ. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xix. B All the of Egipte, all the policie of their Moates & diches shal come to naught. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 233 This voyage..came to nothing. 1611 Bible (King James) Hag. i. 9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little. View more context for this quotation 1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 88 Your engagement against or seeking..will come to nothing. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 123 Not one Grain of that I sow'd this Time came to any Thing. 1776 J. Leacock Fall Brit. Tyranny iv. vii. 55 Such foolish councils..Must end in wordy words, and come to nought. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xi. 239 An' I am to lose by ye, I'se ne'er deny I hae won by ye mony a fair pund sterling—Sae, an' it come to the warst, I'se e'en lay the head o' the sow to the tail o' the grice. 1879 A. Trollope Eye for Eye I. ii. 30 I hope that it may come to nothing, but I think that you ought to know. 1903 V. Bell Let. 15 Mar. in Sel. Lett. (1993) 10 I really think I have put down all I can remember of his sayings about Art. I don't know that they really come to much and perhaps they will only bore you. 1984 Times 5 Dec. 19/6 The talks came to nought. 2008 Observer (Nexis) 2 Nov. (Mag.) 9 So you face the final curtain. The whisper therapy came to nada. The shared judo lessons came to zilch. †b. as that comes to: (in a comparison with something just mentioned or implied) ‘as that’, ‘as all that’. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxxvii. 222/2 His creating of vs, is not onely to abstaine from evill: (for stones and trees and other senselesse things doe as much as that comes to:) but wee must gue and applye our selves to the doing of good. 1635 G. Wither Coll. Emblemes To Rdr. sig. A2^v I am contented to hazzard among them, so much of my reputation, as that comes to. 1673 J. Dryden Amboyna iii. i. 24 I'le tempt as great a danger as that comes to. 1685 J. Northleigh Triumph Monarchy iii. 426 His Remarks upon Ανθρωπινὴ κτίσις will tell us that he understood as much Greek as that came to. 1749 D. Garrick Lethe: Dramatic Satire 20 I an't so young and so foolish as that comes to, to be directed by my Husband. 1756 Monitor No. 39 ⁋4 Mrs. Bull is not so bad a wife, as that comes to. 1825 New Monthly Mag. 14 327 You don't eat any thing. What, is your leg so bad as that comes to? 1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. iv. 49 I am not exactly such a pig as that comes to. 1896 H. James Other House (1897) xvi. 141 Everything's strange—and the truest things are the strangest. Besides, it isn't so extraordinary as that comes to. c. to come to the same thing and variants: to be equivalent in significance or effect, to amount to the same thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > be equivalent amountc1390 to pass for (also as)1463 to come to one purpose1489 weigh1529 to pass muster1573 parallel1626 tantamount1628 to come to the same1643 coextenda1711 muster1820 1643 D. Digges Unlawfulnesse Subj. iii. 64 It will come to the same thing by undenyable deductions from his owne grounds. 1662 P. du Moulin tr. Novelty of Popery viii. ix. i. 668 What he saith, comes to the same thing that we say. 1741 G. Turnbull tr. J. G. Heineccius Methodical Syst. Universal Law I. i. iii. 62 Conformity to Reason, or which comes to the same thing, to our rational nature. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 92 It comes to the same thing, said I. 1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. i. 12 It comes nearly to the same thing in the end. 1877 Pharmaceut. Jrnl. 6 Oct. 213/2 He would call it excess of income over expenditure, which came to much the same thing. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1297 With the squamosal or with the temporal, which comes to the same thing, the lower jaw or mandible articulates. 1965 B. Barry Polit. Argument (1990) i. 10 One may ‘appraise’ a person, which comes to much the same as ‘weighing him up’. 2001 J. Boyle Galloway Street 14 Most of our relations are not real relations either, though my mammy says it comes to the same thing. d. To amount in significance or effect to (a particular point, fact, matter at hand, etc.); to be essentially or ultimately a matter of. Cf. to come down 10a at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > be occupied with a topic [verb (intransitive)] > be a matter of to come down1674 to come to ——1879 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xix. 178 The first [dispute] really came to the question whether the bishops..were subjects of the king or of the Pope. 1907 S. C. Bryant Stories to tell Children p. xliii This is what it all comes to, ultimately: the teacher of young children must be a person who can speak English as it should be spoken. 1925 W. Cather Professor's House ii. vi. 244 Rodney explained that..he'd always supposed..that it would come to money in the end. 2001 S. King Dreamcatcher iii. 103 Funny to compare the ending of your life to a sneeze, but that was probably what it came to. Just kerchoo , and then hello darkness, my old friend. 6. intransitive. a. when (also if) it comes to it and variants: when (or if) the time comes for essential, decisive, or important action; should it become (absolutely) necessary; ultimately. ΚΠ 1630 J. Gaule Practique Theories Abrahams Entertainm. Angels 25 In all offices, men are forward at first; but when it comes to it, who so backward as they? 1643 J. Caryl Expos. 3 First Chaps. Iob ii. 242 Doe not barter away your lives upon mean rates... If it comes to it..sell your lives as deare as you can. 1689 Refl. Late Great Revol. 2 His [sc. God's] Proposal to Abraham was only for Trial; for you see, he would not permit him to kill his Son when it came to it. 1867 E. S. Elliot Copsley Ann. ii. 43 I thought so! When it comes to it you're just like any other girl. 1905 S. C. Comstock Rebel Prince xxvi. 413 Hugh an' I had agreed to make a dash for it with her, an' should it come to it, had sworn to kill Mademoiselle, rather than that she should fall into the hands of this horde. 1937 A. Thirkell Summer Half ii. 45 I could have lent him some of my pyjamas, if it comes to that. 1948 H. Drake-Brockman Sydney or Bush 261 At the last Bill gripped her hand on the wheel. ‘If it comes to it, Bren, take care of yourself as well as the kids.’ 1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet (1990) v. 283 Was Irina right to think that ‘when it came to it’ Marcus might oppose the marriage? 2008 R. Miller Private Lives Pippa Lee 5 But as long as Pippa keeps making that butterflied lamb, I'll even caddie for you, if that's what it comes to. 2014 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Oct. (Business section) 37 We do not discriminate and are very proud of our record in this area which, if it comes to it, we will robustly defend. b. colloquial. †if you come to that (obsolete), come to that: if that is the case; for that matter; anyway. ΚΠ 1800 M. Edgeworth Castle Rackrent 141 I only offer to purchase to make things easy and oblige him—though I don't see what compliment I am under, if you come to that. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiv. 292 I've been as good a son as ever you were a brother. It's the pot and the kettle, if you come to that. 1891 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 293/1 Why in snakes should anybody want to be a sculptor, if you come to that? 1942 Penguin New Writing 12 84 He was plumb scared of war. Come to that, so am I. 1964 R. Jeffries Embarrassing Death iii. 21 You don't want to be nice for this job—or for any other job, come to that. 2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 45/1 This narrative from a woman's perspective is tone-true. So, come to that, was Tóibín's well-received novel Brooklyn. c. when it comes to ——: (used to introduce or qualify a statement) so far as (a matter or subject) is concerned. ΚΠ 1889 Harper's Mag. Mar. 561/1 A man must dismiss all thoughts of..common-sense when it comes to masquerade dresses, and just sail in and make an unmitigated fool of himself. 1898 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1897 427 The intelligent farmer of today has got beyond trading ‘sight unseen’ or ‘buying a cat in a bag’ when it comes to fertilizers. 1904 St. Nicholas July 793/2 When it comes to rapid growing, no other garden vegetable compares with the squashvine. 1942 L. D. Rich We took to Woods viii. 220 He's often hardboiled in his attitude toward his own kind, but when it comes to animals, he's just a bowl of custard. 1985 W. A. Donohue Polit. Amer. Civil Liberties Union v. 339 When it comes to crime control, it is clear what remedies the ACLU opposes. 2012 P. Druckerman Bringing up Bébé xiii. 226 When it comes to parenting she's the boss, full stop. 7. intransitive. what is —— coming to? and variants: used as a rhetorical expression of dismay, disgust, or incredulity at a perceived deterioration in the state or condition of ——. Also occasionally what is coming to ——?. Cf. what is the world coming to? at world n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > expression of dismay [phrase] what is —— coming to?1656 1656 tr. M. Maier Themis Aurea xix. 130 O harsh times, O evill manners! what is the world come to when slanders shall pass for Truths? 1693 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master (ed. 2) v. i. 64 How! is the World come to that? a Man cannot keep a Wench without Articles and Settlements. 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses 24 'Sdeath! what am I come to, to be Affronted so by my Tradesmen? 1795 Tribune 18 Apr. 140 O what are we come to when all our calculations are employed upon pounds, shillings and pence. 1834 Mirror of Parl. (2nd Sess., 11th Parl.) 3 2655/1 Good God! What have we come to? This is really worse than any Tory Government I have ever witnessed. 1863 Harper's New Monthly Mag. Mar. 555/1 Are you going to turn curmudgeon, too..? I don't know what's coming to the world! 1886 Secular Rev. 19 June 395/1 What are things coming to when a large and influential daily newspaper..ventures to write thus of such an anti-Christ as Saladin? 1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. (1910) xxii. 270 I don't know what's coming to women nowadays... I never used to have any trouble with them. 1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xxii. 275 What was she come to? She, Margaret Messenger, renowned throughout the country for her mental and moral pulchritude, had descended to the level of a drab. 1938 ‘G. Graham’ Swiss Sonata 182 What's this school coming to? 2003 K. Kwei-Armah Elmina's Kitchen ii. i. 51 When man have party people suppose to dance, not stand up and chat. What de arse this generation coming to? 8. intransitive. to come to oneself: (of a racehorse) to mature, to reach top form or performance. ΚΠ 1987 Times 15 Dec. 37/6 The Thinker is a horse who doesn't come to himself until Christmas or afterwards, and I am not happy enough with him to give him a race yet. 1993 Racing Post 8 Aug. 28/4 Cumani's filly had good form at two and, although disappointing on her Kempton comeback, has been given time to come to herself. 2004 Racing Ahead June 13/1 The trainer is therefore taking it slowly, while the horse comes to himself. 2016 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 12 Feb. 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