come by
To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily.
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Expressions you’ll hear in the US — distinctly American usage first, then widespread staples.
come correct
To behave properly or decently; to do the right thing.
come down on
To punish or criticize (someone).
come down with
To develop symptoms or signs of (an illness).
come down with one's dust
To pay up, especially in cash; to settle one’s accounts, to lay down one’s money.
come for
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, for.
come forth
To move forward and into view, to emerge, to appear.
come from
To have as one's origin, birthplace or nationality.
come from behind
To be in a winning position after having been in a losing position.
come from below
To originate among ordinary people instead of the elite.
come in for
To be subjected to.
come into
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: See come and into.
come off
To become detached.
come off it
An expression of disbelief.
come on in
Synonym of come in (“to enter”).
come on to
To make a romantic or sexual advance to.
come out in
to be afflicted by (a visible disruption of the body)
come out with
To say (something) unexpectedly.
come over
To affect in a sudden, unprecedented or surprising manner; to overwhelm a person's ordinarily contrary impulse.
come round
To change direction.
come together
To assemble; to congregate; to combine.
come under
To come underneath (something).
come up against
To face (someone, something) in a match, problem, competition or fight.
come up from behind
To surprisingly succeed despite long odds; to stealthily or unobtrusively rise up from a low-status position.
come up to
To approach.
come upon
To discover or find, especially by chance or accident.
come with
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, with.
come with it
To challenge or dare (someone); to meet a challenge or dare; to try or endeavor.
come-on
A bad actor whose talents do not extend far beyond walking onto the stage.
comf
Clipping of comfortable.
comfortable as an old shoe
Comfortably familiar.
comfortfic
Fan fiction read in order to make oneself feel better when sad, ill, stressed, etc.
comicverse
The fictional universe of a work as presented in its comics version, as opposed to, e.g. the TV series or the movie.
comix
Comics, especially those that are self-published and deal with offbeat or transgressive topics
comma queen
A person who is obsessed with fixing grammatical errors.
comment out
To disable a section of source code by converting it into a comment.
commercial
A male prostitute.
commie
A communist; a person with communist sympathies; a supposed communist infiltrator.
commiefornia
Derogatory name for California: a state of the United States, regarded as excessively socially liberal, extreme far left, or communist.
commit to the bit
To remain faithful to one's prior decisions, especially for the sake of humor.
common as dirt
Extremely common.
common as muck
Very common (in various senses).
common as pig tracks
Very common or frequently encountered; not at all rare.
common sense is neither common nor sensical
Many assumptions that people make through intuition, popular culture, or 'common sense' turn out to be incorrect.
commotion lotion
Buckfast Tonic Wine, a brand of fortified wine.
comp stomp
A cooperative game format typical to competitive player-versus-player video games, such as real-time strategy games, where a number of human players instead team up against one or more computer-controlled opponents.
comparison is the thief of joy
Comparing one's own situation with that of others will lead to unhappiness or bitterness.
compass out
To circumscribe; to delimit.
completo
A hot dog with the works.
comprendo
do you understand?
computergate
A 1981 controversy around allegations that the staff of US politician Jerry Brown deliberately destroyed computer cards in order to obstruct an investigation into his campaign.
comshaw
The practice of pilfering or bartering for surplus items.
comship
A ship featuring elements deemed morally complex or problematic, such as abuse, incest, or a power gap.
comshipper
One who supports a ship with elements deemed morally complex or problematic, such as a power gap, or a relationship between a mortal and an immortal.
comsymp
A Communist sympathizer; a liberal.
con
A convicted criminal, a convict.
con crud
An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single gathering such as a convention, allowing disease to spread easily among them due to lack of immunity.
conceited as a barber's cat
Very conceited.
conchy
A conscientious objector.
concom
The group of volunteers who organise and run a convention.