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come and go

Verb

Meaning

To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively)
He comes and goes as he pleases.

To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient
My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.

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Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind. Shania Twain

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go. Edwin Arlington Robinson

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts. Anna Quindlen

A man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime. Arthur Miller

Long live the headdress, because hats come and go. Corsican Proverb

Coins are round and come and go. Corsican Proverb

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