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come the revolution
at some unknown point in the future everything will change for the better, used as a catchphrase response to an unanswerable complaint, or as a vague, unmeant threat of revenge US, 1987- “Come the revolution”, he went on, “and you report me to the Committee, try to remember that the pressures to conform are tremendous in a small town.” — Ethan Morden, Buddies, p. 81, 1986
- When disputes erupted, “Come the revolution!” could mean “Later for that–much later.” — Todd Gitlin, The Sixties, p. 346, 1987
- But the lawyers have not disappeared from either side. Nor, I suspect, will they ever, even come the revolution. — Guardian, 10 May 2001
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