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单词 come on
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come on

phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come

(START)

C1 to start to happen or work:

The heating comes on at six in the morning.

If you have an illness coming on, it is starting gradually:

I think I've got a cold coming on.

UK informal If a woman comes on, her period (= the blood coming from the womb that happens every month) starts.

More examples

  • What time does the heating come on?
  • I've set the oven to come on at ten.
  • All the lights came on.
  • The streetlights come on automatically at dusk.

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Starting and beginning

  • be in the first flush of idiom
  • become
  • begin
  • branch out
  • break into sth
  • export
  • get down to business idiom
  • ground
  • incipient
  • initiator
  • instate
  • introduce
  • kick
  • strike
  • swing into action idiom
  • touch sth off
  • train
  • trigger
  • wade in
  • weave

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(ENCOURAGEMENT)

B1 said to encourage someone to do something, especially to hurry or try harder, or to tell you something:

Come on - we're going to be late if you don't hurry!
Come on, Helen, you can tell me. I won't tell anyone.

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Expressions telling people to hurry up

  • arse
  • c'mon
  • come
  • come along
  • gee
  • gee up!
  • get/put your skates on idiom
  • jump
  • look
  • make
  • make it quick/fast idiom
  • make it snappy idiom
  • move it! idiom
  • move/shift your arse! idiom
  • quick
  • shake a leg idiom
  • skate
  • snap
  • time is of the essence idiom
  • weave

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(SEXUAL INTEREST)

informal to make your sexual interest known to someone:

Then his wife left the room and he started coming on to me.
She was coming on strong and, naturally, I responded.

(APPEAR)

(of an actor) to walk onto the stage:

There was great applause when the Russian ballerina came on.

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Cinema & theatre: acting, rehearsing & performing

  • act
  • act sth out
  • amateur theater
  • dumb show
  • enact
  • entrance 1
  • ham
  • ham it up
  • improvise
  • live action
  • mime
  • offstage
  • portray
  • prompt
  • repertory
  • rest
  • stage
  • stage whisper
  • stretch
  • variety

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(NOT BELIEVE)

informal used to tell someone that you do not believe them or that you disagree with them, or to show that you are angry with them:

Oh come on, Kylie, you made the same excuse last week!

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Linguistics: interjections

  • (well) what do you know! idiom
  • aiyo
  • alas
  • aw shucks
  • awesomesauce
  • bam
  • bless
  • boo
  • charming
  • good show idiom
  • goodness
  • heck
  • hot dog! idiom
  • talk
  • use your loaf idiom
  • voilà
  • wake up! idiom
  • watch out
  • what an idea! idiom
  • yes

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come-onnoun [ C ]

uk/ˈkʌm.ɒn/us/ˈkʌm.ɑːn/informal

a remark that shows someone that you are sexually interested in them:

He was giving me the come-on.

something that someone who is selling a product uses to interest a customer

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Attracting and tempting

  • affinity
  • allure
  • arrest
  • attract
  • attraction
  • charm offensive
  • charm the pants off sb idiom
  • counterattraction
  • crowd-puller
  • cute
  • glitter
  • magnet
  • pull
  • pulling power
  • reel
  • reel sb/sth in
  • seduce
  • seduction
  • spell
  • tickle

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