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come in for

Verb

Meaning

be subject to or the object of

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They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh. Mike Epps

Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this. Kate Winslet

In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by people who just come in for men's underwear. Julia Child

We come in for five years, if we start lugging this garbage. Narendra Modi

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years. Harvey Fierstein

I think every character actor at some stage likes to carry a film. It can be extremely liberating to just come in for a scene or two and do your thing. But I find it frustrating if I'm just doing little bits here and there for too long. Brendan Gleeson

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