come into


verb(intr, preposition)
  1. to enter

  2. to inherit

  1. come into one's own

    • to become fulfilled: she really came into her own when she got divorced

    • to receive what is due to one

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with come into

come into

Inherit, acquire, as in She expected to come into a fortune when she turned twenty-one. [Early 1700s]

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