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come of
verb
- to be descended from
- to result from
nothing came of his experiments
Idioms and Phrases
see come out of .Example Sentences
That might come, of course — sitcoms, if they’re allowed to go on, tend to mature like wine — or it might not.
I’m not being delusional about it—no merrily heading to a bar to watch the results like in 2016!—but no good can really come of actively worrying about this, for me, right now.
What’s come of that attentiveness is concrete action, he said, pointing to the drinking water and Superfund regulations, as well as guidance from the Department of Defense on halting ongoing contamination from groundwater around affected military bases.
So far though, despite all the hype and anticipation, not much has come of those talks.
But nothing has come of the ballyhooed cap or penalties.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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