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Idioms and Phrases

Happen as predicted, be realized or fulfilled, as in Her marriage is my fondest dream come true . [Early 1800s]

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Having the opportunity to play music as a career is a dream come true.

If Alex Sharp is in the middle of a “dream come true,” as he puts it, he is also suffering for it.

Performing with Weird Al was as much as a dream come true as I think I could conjure.

For me it was a dream come true, because it was such a safe environment to learn in.

An international brand is in her five-year plan, and most things this young designer sets her sights on tend to come true.

It was her wildest dream come true; that is, it had come true, until lately.

Rose could hardly permit herself to believe that the dream would come true, and that Tanqueray would really take her.

“In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, our forecasts would have come true,” she said.

All signs belong to this class of arguments; they are of value or worthless as they come true more or less frequently.

I little thought—we, none of us thought—how soon those words would come true.

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