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Come along   /kəm əlˈɔŋ/   Listen
Come along

verb
1.
Come into being or existence, or appear on the scene.  Synonym: appear.  "Homo sapiens appeared millions of years ago"
2.
Develop in a positive way.  Synonyms: advance, come on, get along, get on, progress, shape up.  "My plants are coming along" , "Plans are shaping up"






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"Come along" Quotes from Famous Books



... said. "Unless they keep ahead of us we're going to trail them along. You're a straight man, Larry, but you don't see all you've done. You set this thing going, and now you can't step out if it goes too far for you. No, sir, you've got to keep the pace and come along, and it's going to be quite lively now some of the Chicago anarchy boys are ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss

... a rough sea, certainly," Ned said; "but it is all nonsense to say that a boat could not live. Come along, Tom. Let us push that shallop down. There is a sheltered spot behind that rock where we may launch her, and methinks that our arms can row ...
— Under Drake's Flag - A Tale of the Spanish Main • G. A. Henty

... against the animal's teeth, and standing in a group with their backs to the rock, they hewed and cut vigorously at their assailants. The numbers of these, however, appeared almost innumerable, and fresh stragglers continued to come along the road, and swell their body. As fast as those in front fell, their heads cleft with the axes of the party, fresh ones sprang forward; and Cuthbert saw that in spite of the valor and strength of his ...
— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty

... is Stallins, bein' he's kin to Enright on his mother's side, an' since thar's nine ahead of him—Enright's mother bein' among the first—an' he don't come along as a infant ontil the heel of the domestic hunt that a-way, he's only got it on Enright by ten years in the ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis

... with about twenty men under him, and these now began to see that they were in a trap, being too few to fight the ship to any purpose, while any attempt to land would expose them to a destructive fire either from the fleet or from Mr. Clive's troops, which would come along the sand ...
— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward


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