COME AND GO Definition & Meaning

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come and go

Arrive and depart, either briefly or repeatedly; go to and fro. Shakespeare had it in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:2): “He may come and go between you both.” [Late 1300s]
Alternately appear and disappear, as in This rash is odd; it comes and goes . [Mid-1300s] Also see coming or going ; easy come, easy go .

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As in fashion, trends in skin care come and go.

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Mr Day has seen gardening trends come and go.

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Frontier characters with colorful language come and go in spurts of saloon musing and fireside dialogue.

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After Symonds died in 2007 from complications of prostate cancer, Pointer kept performing, including a 2017 role in “Night and Dreams: A Schubert & Beckett Recital” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where she played one of the amusing old ladies of Beckett’s “Come and Go.”

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The Ponderosa is open, customers are having lunch as firefighters come and go outside.

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