Idiom
come knocking
Meaning
To arrive unanticipated and uninvited.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Opportunity will come knocking when you least expect it.”
“He ignored his health for years, but eventually, the consequences came knocking at his door.”
“Though she spent her life avoiding the shadows of her past, the truth eventually came knocking with an insistence that could no longer be ignored.”
Examples
simple
“Opportunity will come knocking when you least expect it.”
contextual
“He ignored his health for years, but eventually, the consequences came knocking at his door.”
complex
“Though she spent her life avoiding the shadows of her past, the truth eventually came knocking with an insistence that could no longer be ignored.”
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