1. come to pass - Verb
2. come to pass - Phrase
come to pass (third-person singular simple present comes to pass, present participle coming to pass, simple past came to pass, past participle come to pass)
To happen; to occur.
Say not 'a small event' Why 'small' Costs it more pain that this ye call A 'great event' should come to pass From that Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed. Robert Browning
Things we do not hope for often come to pass than things we wish. Plautus
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing? Hannah Arendt
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant. Indro Montanelli
Better one good thing that is, rather than two good things that were, or three good things that might never come to pass. Irish Proverb