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come into one's own en · VERB

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic) To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance.
   • "We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all," Phil explains. "This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own." 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40:
   • The eyes of the wood-cutter flash like actual possession. He seems now to have come into his own. With all his senses, he is dominant, sure. 1916, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[On the Lago di Garda] The Dance”, in Twilight in Italy, London: Duckworth and Co. […], →OCLC, page 182:
   • Everywhere the people would come into their own, and war and tyranny would vanish like a hateful nightmare! Speaker after speaker got up to proclaim this glorious future. 1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 12, in Jimmie Higgins:
   • Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other. 1992, Popular Mechanics, volume 169, number 11, page 18:
   • Sally just swept along smiling at every one. . . . Sally looked just as if she had come into her own and was made for it; I never did see her look so pretty. 1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 7, in Laddie: A True Blue Story:
   • The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies. 2010 November 26, Gemlyn George, “Healthcare in Asia: A Roadmap for the Next Decade”, in Time:
   • And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. . . . [T]he old tricks . . . came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always. . . . [T]he ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again. 1903, Jack London, chapter 2, in Call of the Wild:

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Translations (13)

it raggiungere la maturità (to reach maturity) · cmn 名利雙收 /名利双收 (to reach maturity) · ru состоя́ться (to reach maturity) · cmn 出人頭地 /出人头地 (to reach maturity) · ru взросле́ть (to reach maturity) · ru матере́ть (to reach maturity) · ru реализова́ться (to reach maturity) · ru повзросле́ть (to reach maturity) · cmn 鵬程萬里 /鹏程万里 (to reach maturity) · cmn 羽翼豐滿 /羽翼丰满 (to reach maturity) · fi alkaa tulla omillaan toimeen (to reach maturity) · ru заматере́ть (to reach maturity) · cmn 升堂入室 (to reach maturity)