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come down to

Idioms  
  1. Also, come right down to. Amount to or be reduced to, as in It all comes down to a matter of who was first in line, or When it comes right down to it, you have to admit he was mistaken. [Late 1800s] Also see boil down, def. 2.


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While there’s nothing wrong, per se, with ExpressVPN’s extra bundled goodies, they come down to fluff.

From Salon

But since falling to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semi-finals, and then Jakub Mensik in Doha, Sinner's success has come down to the improved reliability of his service game.

From BBC

In other words, valuation levels have had to come down to account for an evolving view of the company’s potential legal liabilities going forward.

From MarketWatch

Mark Bird, from GBGB, said the decision "appears to come down to arguments of a purely academic nature".

From BBC

That will ultimately come down to whether the maths has shifted and whether something about the unprecedented nature of this wave in cases alters the calculations.

From BBC