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"etymology_text": "The expression was used in prizefighting (boxing).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "comes to time",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "coming to time",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came to time",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "come to time",
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],
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},
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"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
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{
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1834, Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful",
"text": "We fights for ten minutes or so, and then I hits him a round blow on the ear, and he falls down on the hard, and couldn't come to time. No wonder, poor fellow ! for he had gone to eternity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called."
],
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[
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"(dated) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called."
],
"tags": [
"dated"
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},
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"glosses": [
"To maintain an appointment; to meet expectations."
],
"id": "en-come_to_time-en-verb-lInoUbWl",
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"meet"
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]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(idiomatic) To maintain an appointment; to meet expectations."
],
"tags": [
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]
}
],
"word": "come to time"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English multiword terms",
"English verbs"
],
"etymology_text": "The expression was used in prizefighting (boxing).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "comes to time",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "coming to time",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "came to time",
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},
{
"form": "come to time",
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"participle",
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]
}
],
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},
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"ref": "1834, Frederick Marryat, Jacob Faithful",
"text": "We fights for ten minutes or so, and then I hits him a round blow on the ear, and he falls down on the hard, and couldn't come to time. No wonder, poor fellow ! for he had gone to eternity.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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"To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called."
],
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"forward",
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"(dated) To come forward in order to resume the contest when the interval allowed for rest is over and time is called."
],
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"dated"
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{
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"To maintain an appointment; to meet expectations."
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"(idiomatic) To maintain an appointment; to meet expectations."
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