come to sth
— phrasal verb with come uk/kʌm/us/kʌm/verb came, come
(TOTAL)
B2 to be a particular total when numbers or amounts are added together:
That comes to £25.
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- Our shopping came to £34.
- When we added up all the guests, it came to over 200.
- I'll pay for the food. It shouldn't come to too much.
- The bill came to roughly £60.
- Altogether, the accommodation and food came to six hundred pounds.
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Calculations & calculating
- aggregate
- algorithm
- amount
- amount to sth
- average
- commutative
- computational
- equate
- figure
- gauge
- get/have your sums right/wrong idiom
- grand total
- guesstimate
- instantaneous velocity
- miscalculate
- projected
- put
- put sth at sth
- result
- triangulation
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(REACH)
B2 to reach a particular point or state:
His hair comes right down to his shoulders.
He's tiny, he doesn't even come up to my chest!
And now I come to (= I will mention) my main point.
The war had just come to an end (= ended).
The car spun off the road, turned over twice and came to rest (= stopped moving) in a field.
We may have to sell the house, but I hope it won't come to that.
come to nothing
If plans come to nothing, they fail:
So much effort and planning, and it's all come to nothing.
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Arriving, entering and invading
- annex
- barge
- barge in
- be on the scene idiom
- been
- breaking and entering idiom
- bugger
- go down
- intrusion
- invade
- keep (sb/sth) out
- land
- let
- let sb/sth in
- loom
- pile
- pitch
- pitch invasion
- rock
- roll up! idiom
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Coming to an end
Failing and doing badly
(DECIDE)
If you come to a decision, arrangement, etc., you make a decision or decide what to think about something:
We haven't come to a decision on the matter yet.
Have you come to any conclusions about the story yet?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Decisions and deciding
- be make or break for sb/sth idiom
- be on the horns of a dilemma idiom
- clinch
- clincher
- come down on one side of the fence or the other idiom
- decider
- fight
- hammer sth out
- head
- it's a date idiom
- judgment call
- lot
- make or break sth idiom
- make up your mind idiom
- mind
- nail sth down
- name
- name the day idiom
- spin a coin idiom
- toss
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