as they come

Adverb

Meaning

as they come (not comparable)

(idiomatic) as it is possible to be

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity. Carl Jung

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination. Lucy Parsons

Snap your fingers and somebody runs / You don't care how they feel just as long as they come / Got your head in the stars now you've come this far / Just who do you think you are? Kim Wilde

Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door. Indra Devi

Take things as they come. Traditional Proverb

One must accept things as they come. German Proverb

Close letter words and terms

as the third statement as the wind blows as they ask as they say as thick as a brick as thick as a plank