come and go

come and go

English

Verb

come and go (third-person singular simple present comes and goes, present participle coming and going, simple past came and went, past participle come and gone)

1. To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively)

   He comes and goes as he pleases.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, OCLC 246633669, PC, scene: Citadel:

     Shepard: This isn't a station; it's a city.
     Kaidan: There must be millions here. It can't be possible to track everyone coming and going.

2. To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient

   My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.

   • 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Opportunities came and went as Kuyt's deflected shot from an angle cannoned back off the woodwork and Carroll twice fired over after right-wing crosses from Kuyt and Johnson picked him out.

Translations

arrive and depart

Albanian: shkoj e vij, vete e vij Chinese: Mandarin: 來來去去／来来去去 (láilái-qùqù) Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: mennä ja tulla, tulla ja mennä French: aller et venir (fr) Greek: μπαινοβγαίνω (el) (bainovgaíno) Hungarian: jön-megy Italian: andare e venire Latin: commeō Macedonian: појди́-дојди (pojdí-dojdi), влези-и́злези (vlezi-ízlezi) Maori: kapewhiti Spanish: ir y venir, vaivén (es) m Vietnamese: đến và đi

appear and disappear

Chinese: Mandarin: 時斷時續／时断时续 (zh) (shíduànshíxù) Dutch: please add this translation if you can Finnish: tulla ja mennä French: please add this translation if you can Italian: andare e venire Latin: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: појди́-дојди (pojdí-dojdi) Maori: please add this translation if you can Spanish: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: thoắt ẩn thoắt hiện

See also

• coming and going
• ebb and flow