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1 PHRASAL VERB [no passive] If someone comes into some money, some property, or a title, they inherit it. □ [V P n] My father has just come into a fortune in diamonds.

2 PHRASAL VERB [no passive] If someone or something comes into a situation, they have a role in it. □ [V P n] We don't really know where Hortense comes into all this.

▸  come off

1 PHRASAL VERB If something comes off , it is successful or effective. □ [V P ] It was a good try but it didn't quite come off.

2 PHRASAL VERB If someone comes off worst in a contest or conflict, they are in the worst position after it. If they come off best, they are in the best position. □ [V P adv] Some Democrats still have bitter memories of how, against all odds, they came off worst during the inquiry.

3 PHRASAL VERB [no passive] If you come off a drug or medicine, you stop taking it. □ [V P n] …people trying to come off tranquillizers.

4 CONVENTION You say 'come off it' to someone to show them that you think what they are saying is untrue or wrong. [INFORMAL , SPOKEN ]

▸  come on

1 CONVENTION You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to do something they do not much want to do. [SPOKEN ] □  Come on Doreen, let's dance.

2 CONVENTION You say 'Come on' to someone to encourage them to hurry up. [SPOKEN ]

3 PHRASAL VERB [usu cont] If you have an illness or a headache coming on , you can feel it starting. □ [V P ] Tiredness and fever are much more likely to be a sign of flu coming on.

4 PHRASAL VERB [usu cont] If something or someone is coming on well, they are developing well or making good progress. □ [V P adv] Lee is coming on very well now and it's a matter of deciding how to fit him into the team.

5 PHRASAL VERB When something such as a machine or system comes on , it starts working or functioning. □ [V P ] The central heating was coming on and the ancient wooden boards creaked.

6 PHRASAL VERB [usu cont] If a new season or type of weather is coming on , it is starting to arrive. □ [V P ] Winter was coming on again. □ [V P to-inf] I had two miles to go and it was just coming on to rain.

▸  come on to

1 PHRASAL VERB When you come on to a particular topic, you start discussing it. □ [V P P n] We're now looking at a smaller system but I'll come on to that later.

2 PHRASAL VERB If someone comes on to you, they show that they are interested in starting a sexual relationship with you. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P P n] I don't think that a woman, by using make-up, is trying to come on to a man.

▸  come out

1 PHRASAL VERB When a new product such as a book or CD comes out , it becomes available to the public. □ [V P ] The book comes out this week.

2 PHRASAL VERB If a fact comes out , it becomes known to people. □ [V P ] The truth is beginning to come out about what happened. □ [V P that] It came out that he was already married.

3 PHRASAL VERB When a gay person comes out , they let people know that they are gay. □ [V P ] …the few gay men there who dare to come out. □ [V P + as ] I came out as a lesbian when I was still in my teens.

4 PHRASAL VERB To come out in a particular way means to be in the position or state described at the end of a process or event. □ [V P adv/prep] In this grim little episode, few people come out well. □ [V P adj] So what makes a good marriage? Faithfulness comes out top of the list. □ [V P + of ] Julian ought to have resigned, then he'd have come out of it with some credit.