the meaning of "come of"

Lost_Soul · #1 (permalink) Sat May 19, 2007 19:44 pm *the meaning of "come of"*

Hello, my friends.

I do need your help with the understanding of this extract from an article I was reading:

Alan · #2 (permalink) Sat May 19, 2007 21:09 pm *the meaning of "come of"*

Hi,

In your sentence I would say that the 'of' is more closely related to 'moments'.
'Came' in this context has the idea of occurred or happened. You can say:

Within hours of hearing the news, I telephoned ...

Within days of winning the prize, she went out and ....

Within weeks of reaching his 40th birthday, he decided to ...

Alan
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Conchita · #3 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 10:20 am *the meaning of "come of"*

The right phrase is not 'come of', but 'come within moments of'. Some similar expressions are:

come within an ace of something

come within an inch of something

come within a whisker of (doing) something

Lost_Soul · #4 (permalink) Sun May 20, 2007 20:48 pm *the meaning of "come of"*

Hi Alan and Conchita,

thank you for helping, i appreciate that
I thing i finally caught on.

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