come about
Related to come about: come around, come across, bring about
come about
1. To happen or materialize. This great job offer came about very quickly—I only interviewed for it a few days ago! I didn't realize that you were dating John. How did that come about?
2. To change the direction in which a ship is traveling. We need to come about because it seems we've gone off-course.
See also: come
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
come about
1. to happen. How did this damage come about? This came about due to the windstorm.
2. [for a ship or boat] to turn. Look how easily this boat comes about. Now, practice making the boat come about.
See also: come
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
come about
1. Also, come to pass. Happen, take place, as in How did this quarrel come about? or When did this new development come to pass? Shakespeare used the first term, first recorded in 1315, in Hamlet (5:2): "How these things came about." The variant, dating from the late 1400s, appears often in the Bible, as in, "And it came to pass ... that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus" (Luke 2:1).
2. Also, go about. In sailing, to change tack (direction), as in It's important to duck under the boom when we come about. [Mid-1500s]
See also: come
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
come about
v.
1. To happen; come to pass: It came about that John and Mary got married and had three children.
2. To change tack. Used of sailing vessels: We were about to come about when the wind suddenly died down.
See also: come
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
- come down the pike
- pike
- make an honest woman (out) of (someone)
- make an honest woman of
- make an honest woman of her
- make an honest woman of somebody
- make an honest woman of someone
- spring to mind
- appear out of thin air
- appear, etc. out of thin air