come and go

Definitions

1. 1

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

   • He comes and goes as he pleases.
   • Shepard: This isn't a station; it's a city. Kaidan: There must be millions here. It can't be possible to track everyone coming and going.
   • Moorgate itself was another story. Here, the area was humming with activity. The entire street had been cordoned off. Fire engines, police vehicles, and ambulances were coming and going, and emergency personnel were hurrying around.
2. 2

   To repeatedly appear and disappear

   To repeatedly appear and disappear; to be transient.

   • My headaches come and go, but the pain in my neck is constant.
   • So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by
   • 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.

The neighborhood

• neighborcoming and going
• neighborebb and flow
• neighborhere today, gone tomorrow