come by

2022. 5. 26. 15:43Vocabulary/Everyday Vocabulary

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Call casually and briefly as a visitor:

  • His friends came by.
  • Do you want to come by for tea and cookies?
  • He's supposed to come by this afternoon.

 

Nimmi Gowrinathan, Wednesday, March 25, 2015

 

Manage to acquire or obtain something:

  • Cameron managed to come by some cheap tickets to Rome.
  • Cheap organic food is still difficult to come by.
  • A good job is hard to come by.

 

Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel

 

 

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