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Coming Round

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He is coming round. Recovering from sickness; recovering from a fit of the sulks; returning to friendship. Death is the end of life, and therefore recovering from “sickness nigh unto death” is coming back to health, or coming round the corner.

 

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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 to the Scratch
Come to the Worst
Come Under (To)
Come Up
Come Upon the Parish (To)
Come Yorkshire over One (To)
Comedy
Comes
Comet Wine
Coming Round
Command Night
Commandment
Comme il Faut
Commendam
Commendation Ninepence
Commis-voyageur (A)
Committee
Committing Falsehood
Commodity of Brown Paper (A)
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