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come and go
Arrive and depart, either briefly or repeatedly; go to and fro. Shakespeare had it in The Merry Wives of Windsor (2:2): “He may come and go between you both.” [Late 1300s]
Alternately appear and disappear, as in This rash is odd; it comes and goes . [Mid-1300s] Also see coming or going ; easy come, easy go .
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After Symonds died in 2007 from complications of prostate cancer, Pointer kept performing, including a 2017 role in “Night and Dreams: A Schubert & Beckett Recital” at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, where she played one of the amusing old ladies of Beckett’s “Come and Go.”
The Ponderosa is open, customers are having lunch as firefighters come and go outside.
Trends come and go - but by their very nature can make people feel compelled to take part to avoid missing out.
Since its creator Paul William Davies based his mystery on Kate Andersen Brower’s “The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House,” the narrative features the landmark's support staff instead of the politicians who come and go.
Shortly after that interview, the strict restrictions of Williams’ New York living facility — and Morrissey’s claims that Williams can come and go as she pleases — came into question again.
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