They came off a week of holidays (come off)
I guess it means "to return from something", right?
I couldn't seem to find that meaning when I looked up the phrase in a dictionary.
Does it have a negative or neutral connotation? The few times I've seen it, there was a reference to (coming off) downtime.
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EyeSeeYou I guess it means "to return from something", right? No. It means to change from one state to another, in this case vacation to normal life.
- EyeSeeYou I guess it means "to return from something", right?
- No.
- It means to change from one state to another, in this case vacation to normal life.
- I tried to find it in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary , but they don't treat it as a phrase, and perhaps it isn't one.
- It's the "come" in "come to" and "come a cropper" and the adverb "off" as in "off duty".
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EyeSeeYouI guess it means "to return from something", right?
No. It means to change from one state to another, in this case vacation to normal life. I tried to find it in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary, but they don't treat it as a phrase, and perhaps it isn't one. It's the "come" in "come to" and "come a cropper" and the adverb "off" as in
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