"come calling" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes calling",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming calling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came calling",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come calling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> calling"
      },
      "expansion": "come calling (third-person singular simple present comes calling, present participle coming calling, simple past came calling, past participle come calling)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Martin Revermann, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy, page 219",
          "text": "The cook Sicon and slave Getas reprise the earlier scene where they came calling to ask for materials and were sent packing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, calling."
      ],
      "id": "en-come_calling-en-verb-3mvzhnhi",
      "links": [
        [
          "come",
          "come#English"
        ],
        [
          "calling",
          "calling#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman",
          "text": "The stage came calling when a friend suggested he try out for a production of South Pacific. He got a part in the sailors' chorus and so began his acting career.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make one's presence felt (due to large numbers, strength, qualities etc)."
      ],
      "id": "en-come_calling-en-verb-XMpMZ0-D",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, figuratively) To make one's presence felt (due to large numbers, strength, qualities etc)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come calling"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "comes calling",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "coming calling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "came calling",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "come calling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "come<,,came,come> calling"
      },
      "expansion": "come calling (third-person singular simple present comes calling, present participle coming calling, simple past came calling, past participle come calling)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Martin Revermann, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy, page 219",
          "text": "The cook Sicon and slave Getas reprise the earlier scene where they came calling to ask for materials and were sent packing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see come, calling."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "come",
          "come#English"
        ],
        [
          "calling",
          "calling#English"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 November 1, Alan Young, “Sean Connery obituary: From delivering milk in Fountainbridge to the definitive James Bond”, in The Scotsman",
          "text": "The stage came calling when a friend suggested he try out for a production of South Pacific. He got a part in the sailors' chorus and so began his acting career.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make one's presence felt (due to large numbers, strength, qualities etc)."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, figuratively) To make one's presence felt (due to large numbers, strength, qualities etc)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "come calling"
}