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Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
come to something
come to sth phrasal verb [ came to sth comes to sth coming to sth ]
TOTAL
1. <I > to be a particular total when numbers or amounts are added together
• That comes to £25.
Thesaurus+: ↑Calculations and calculating ↑Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
• Our shopping came to £34.
• When we added up all the guests, it came to over 200.
• I'll pay for the food. It shouldn't come to too much.
• The bill came to roughly sixty pounds.
• Altogether, the accommodation and food came to six hundred pounds.
REACH
2. to reach a particular point or state
• His hair comes right down to his shoulders.
• He's tiny, he doesn't even come up to my chest!
• And now I come to (= I will mention) my main point.
• The war had just come to an end (= ended).
• The car spun off the road, turned over twice and came to rest (= stopped moving) in a field.
• We may have to sell the house, but I hope it won't come to that.
Thesaurus+: ↑Arriving, entering and invading ↑Coming to an end ↑Causing something to end
3. come to nothing
If plans come to nothing, they fail
• So much effort and planning and it's all come to nothing.
Thesaurus+: ↑Failing and doing badly
DECIDE
3. If you come to a decision, arrangement etc., you make a decision or decide what to think about something
• We haven't come to a decision on the matter yet.
• Have you come to any conclusions about the story yet?
Thesaurus+: ↑Decisions and deciding
Main entry: comephrasal verb
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