come and go

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come and go

verb comes and goes · coming and going · came and went · come and gone

  1. To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively). He comes and goes as he pleases.
  2. idiomatic To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient. My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.
  3. to elapse, pass by; to occur THIRTY years have come and gone, / Melting away like Southern Snows, / Since, in the light of a summer's night, / I went to the garden to seek my Rose.

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verb arrive and depart

Españolir y venir, vaivén
中文來來去去 /来来去去 láilái-qùqù
Françaisaller et venir
Italianoandare e venire
Ελληνικάμπαινοβγαίνω bainovgaíno, πηγαινοέρχομαι pigainoérchomai
Tiếng Việtđến và đi

verb appear and disappear

中文時斷時續 /时断时续 shíduànshíxù, 忽隱忽現 /忽隐忽现 hūyǐnhūxiàn
Françaisaller et venir
Italianoandare e venire
Tiếng Việtthoắt ẩn thoắt hiện

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@misc{come_and_go_2026,
  title = {come and go},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/come%20and%20go},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}