Idiom
come to pass
Meaning
To happen; to occur.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“It is strange how these things come to pass.”
“The old legend predicted that a great storm would come to pass before the harvest.”
“Historians often analyze the specific conditions that allowed such a dramatic political shift to come to pass in the late twentieth century.”
Examples
simple
“It is strange how these things come to pass.”
contextual
“The old legend predicted that a great storm would come to pass before the harvest.”
complex
“Historians often analyze the specific conditions that allowed such a dramatic political shift to come to pass in the late twentieth century.”
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