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▸  come between PHRASAL VERB [no passive] If someone or something comes between two people, or comes between a person and a thing, they make the relationship or connection between them less close or happy. □ [V P n] It's difficult to imagine anything coming between them.

▸  come by PHRASAL VERB To come by something means to obtain it or find it. □ [V P n] How did you come by that cheque?

▸  come down

1 PHRASAL VERB If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down , it becomes less than it was before. □ [V P ] Interest rates should come down. □ [V P + to/from ] If you buy three bottles, the bottle price comes down to £2.42. □ [V P + by ] The price of petrol is coming down by four pence a gallon.

2 PHRASAL VERB If something comes down , it falls to the ground. □ [V P ] The cold rain came down.

▸  come down on

1 PHRASAL VERB If you come down on one side of an argument, you declare that you support that side. □ [V P P n] After much quibbling, the judges came down on the side of Thornton.

2 PHRASAL VERB If you come down on someone, you punish or criticize them severely. □ [V P P n] Referees will come down hard on such cheating.

▸  come down to PHRASAL VERB If a problem, decision, or question comes down to a particular thing, that thing is the most important factor involved. □ [V P P n] Walter Crowley says the problem comes down to money. □ [V P P n] I think that it comes down to the fact that people do feel very dependent on their automobile. □ [V P P n] What it comes down to is, there are bad people out there, and somebody has to deal with them.

▸  come down with PHRASAL VERB If you come down with an illness, you get it. □ [V P P n] Thomas came down with chickenpox at the weekend.

▸  come for PHRASAL VERB If people such as soldiers or police come for you, they come to find you, usually in order to harm you or take you away, for example to prison. □ [V P n] Lotte was getting ready to fight if they came for her.

▸  come forward PHRASAL VERB If someone comes forward , they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help. □ [V P ] A vital witness came forward to say that she saw Tanner wearing the boots.

▸  come in

1 PHRASAL VERB If information, a report, or a telephone call comes in , it is received. □ [V P ] Reports are now coming in of trouble at yet another jail.

2 PHRASAL VERB [usu cont] If you have some money coming in , you receive it regularly as your income. □ [V P ] She had no money coming in and no funds.

3 PHRASAL VERB If someone comes in on a discussion, arrangement, or task, they join it. □ [V P + on ] Can I come in here too, on both points? □ [V P ] He had a designer come in and redesign the uniforms.

4 PHRASAL VERB When a new idea, fashion, or product comes in , it becomes popular or available. □ [V P ] It was just when geography was really beginning to change and lots of new ideas were coming in.

5 PHRASAL VERB If you ask where something or someone comes in , you are asking what their role is in a particular matter. □ [V P ] Rose asked again, 'But where do we come in, Henry?'

6 PHRASAL VERB When the tide comes in , the water in the sea gradually moves so that it covers more of the land.

▸  come in for PHRASAL VERB If someone or something comes in for criticism or blame, they receive it. □ [V P P n] The plans have already come in for fierce criticism in many quarters of the country.

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