Know your English | What are the various usages of the phrase ‘come across’?
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“How was your weekend? Did you finish going through the stuff in your old suitcases?”
“Managed to go through a couple. Both contained a lot of stuff from my college days, and…”
“Did you come across anything interesting? Something that made you stop and…”
“Come across? What exactly do you mean?”
“The expression has several different meanings. When you come across something or someone, you find something or meet someone accidentally.”
“In other words, when you come across an individual, you meet him unexpectedly. It wasn’t a planned meeting.”
“That’s right!”
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.