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Ele Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

Come undone

I don't get to understand what it is exactly. Tx for ur help.

ele
  

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I (myself) found a definition come undone lose self-control, disorganized, at loose ends, fall to pieces When she's near me, I come undone. I can't think or talk! Do you think it applies to robbie williams song??

  • I (myself) found a definition come undone lose self-control, disorganized, at loose ends, fall to pieces When she's near me, I come undone.
  • I can't think or talk!
  • Do you think it applies to robbie williams song??
  • ele
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I (myself) found a definition

come undone lose self-control, disorganized, at loose ends, fall to pieces When she's near me, I come undone. I can't think or talk!

Do you think it applies to robbie williams song??

ele
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You've got the meaning, ele. Here's a famous 60s song that used the same idea.

http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/undun.htm

ARTIST: The Guess Who
TITLE: Undun
Lyrics and Chords


She's come undun
She didn't know what she was headed for
And when I f
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Hello Ele

'To come undone' means 'to become unfastened':

1. 'My shoelaces have come undone.'

It's used when things 'undo themselves': laces, buttons, fasteners, etc.

MrP
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IS ANYBODY READING OUT THERE??

Yup, Mr P and I are, ele.

It does have the literal meaning that Mr P says but you've also got the figurative meaning right. I doubt very much that Robbie Williams is singing about his shoelaces
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Of course Robbie Williams is not talking about his "unfastened" or "untied" shoelaces. "Undone" also means "ruined" or "destroyed".

Hope this helps!
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'Undone' in the sense 'destroyed' is used thus: 'I am undone', 'he is undone', etc.

'Come undone' means 'to become unfastened', 'to unravel'. That's the sense in which the phrase is used in this lyric; metaphorically, of course.

MrP
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Thank you very much for your help!!!! (Y)
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Well, a teacher of mine at teaching training course (i'm in the english teaching training course) told us that to do sb, means to f*ck sb... So there's a hidden meaning in the song that says that he's starting to stop being f*cked... see what i mean? besides, i'm a real fan of robbie's.. and i think he is right in this point... he also told us that the expression to come undone has to do with sth
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Not at all , if you just think for a while it applies to those who are confused and lost between the World which is on one hand filled with happiness and on other hand , it is filled with sorrows . People like those are mostly from 3rd world countries . TY.

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