come and go

English

Verb

come and go (third-person singular simple present comes and goes, present participle coming and going, simple past came and went, past participle come and gone)

1. To alternately enter and exit, arrive and depart (either physically or figuratively)

   He comes and goes as he pleases.

2. To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient

   My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.

   • 2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Opportunities came and went as Kuyt's deflected shot from an angle cannoned back off the woodwork and Carroll twice fired over after right-wing crosses from Kuyt and Johnson picked him out.

Translations

arrive and depart

• Albanian: shkoj e vij, vete e vij
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 來來去去, 来来去去 (láilái-qùqù)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: mennä ja tulla, tulla ja mennä
• French: aller et venir (fr)

• Greek: μπαινοβγαίνω (el) (bainovgaíno)
• Hungarian: jön-megy
• Italian: andare e venire
• Latin: commeō
• Maori: kapewhiti
• Spanish: ir y venir, vaivén (es) m
• Vietnamese: đến và đi

appear and disappear

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時斷時續 (zh), 时断时续 (zh) (shíduànshíxù)

• Dutch: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tulla ja mennä
• French: please add this translation if you can

• Italian: andare e venire
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• Maori: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can