Idiom
coming and going
Meaning
A general bustle of activity.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“There is a lot of coming and going at the train station.”
“The lobby was busy with people coming and going all afternoon during the conference.”
“Throughout the long night, the constant coming and going of messengers suggested that the situation at the border was becoming increasingly unstable.”
Examples
simple
“There is a lot of coming and going at the train station.”
contextual
“The lobby was busy with people coming and going all afternoon during the conference.”
complex
“Throughout the long night, the constant coming and going of messengers suggested that the situation at the border was becoming increasingly unstable.”
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