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.