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Come Of

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What’s to come of it? What’s to come of him? A contracted form of become. To come of [a good stock] is to be descended from [a good family].

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Comb
Comb the Cat (To)
Come and take Them
Come Ather (pron. ah-ther)
Come Down a Peg
Come Down upon One (To)
Come Home
Come it
Come it Strong
Come Lightly
Come Of
Come Off (To)
Come On!
Come Out
Come Over One (To)
Come Round
Come Short (To)
Come That
Come the Religious Dodge (To)
Come to
Come to Grief (To)