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Come Over One (To)

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To wheedle one to do or give something. (Anglo-Saxon, ofer-cuman, to overcome.) To come over one is in reality to conquer or get your own way.

 

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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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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)
Come to Hand (It has)
Come to Pass (To)
Come to an End
Come to the Hammer