come across (redirected from run across someone or something)

come across 

1. to be compliant. Oh, she'll come across, just you wait; she'll do what we want.

2. to agree; to yield. How can we get him to come across?

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come across (with something)

to deliver what is expected of one. You had better come across with what you owe me. You owe me money, and I wish you would come across.

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come across someone or something and run across someone or something

to find someone or something; to discover someone or something. John came across a book he had been looking for. Where did you run across that lovely skirt?

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come across (somebody/something)

to happen to find someone or something I was looking through a magazine and came across an interesting article on American artists.

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come across (as)

to appear to have a particular attitude or character Sometimes he seemed like a good old pal, but other times he came across as an angry and unpleasant man.

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