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come of en · VERB
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(idiomatic) To result from.
What ever came of that? — Don't worry, I don’t think anything will come of it.
But the words stuck in his throat, as Elye struck him down. (That's what comes of talking too much while you battle.)
2023 May 24, J. Aaron Gruben, Elye of Saint Gilles: A Chansons de Geste Retold, Post Tenebras Lux Books:[see title]
1861, Frank Boott Goodrich, Flirtation, and what comes of it: A Comedy in Five Acts, page 63:It all came of you being moving, and me sitting still!
1865, Jane Carlyle, in a letter to T. Carlyle, 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, of Friday, 12 August, 1865, published in the Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle, volume 1, in 1883
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