Vocabulary focus:       Idioms with COME
Quic k Fix 89 – idioms with COME
             ST UDENT W OR KSH EET
ACTIVITY: Complete the sentences with the words from the list. Then, match the idioms with their meanings.
     age                     clean                closet                 earth                  go
     grips                   handy                light                  nothing                served
1. Styles come and ……………… but the glamour of drugs endures.
2. North Korea must come …….……. about its nuclear arsenal.
3. Don’t forget your umbrella. It’ll come in …………….. if it
   rains.
4. After a few months on the dole, he finally came down to
   ……………. and started looking for a job.
5. We have so far failed to come to ……………… with the ecological
   problems.
6. Her boyfriend knows very well that she will inherit a fortune when she
   comes of …………………. .
7. More and more homosexual celebrities are now coming out of the ………………….. .
8. Unfortunately, all our efforts came to …………………… and we lost the contract.
9. Tickets are available on a first come, first ………………….. basis.
10. New evidence has recently come to …………………….. .
to admit and explain something that you have kept as a secret        …………………………………………..
to be useful                                                         …………………………………………..
to have no successful result                                         …………………………………………..
to return to a normal way of behaving after a time when they
                                                                     …………………………………………..
haven’t been very practical
to reach the age when you have an adult’s legal rights               …………………………………………..
to begin to understand and deal with something difficult             …………………………………………..
to arrive and leave; to be present for a short time                  …………………………………………..
in the order in which people arrive                                  …………………………………………..
to admit something openly that you kept secret before,
                                                                     …………………………………………..
because of shame or embarrassment
to become known to people                                            …………………………………………..
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