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Come to the fore   /kəm tu ðə fɔr/   Listen
Come to the fore

verb
1.
Make oneself visible; take action.  Synonyms: come forward, come out, step forward, step to the fore, step up.






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"Come to the fore" Quotes from Famous Books



... of education, the provision for which is on a most generous scale, carried out with a determination at which the older countries of the Eastern Hemisphere have only arrived by slow degrees and painful experience. Of course the Americans, being young, and having come to the fore, so to speak, full-fledged, have been able to profit by the lessons which they have derived from their neighbors—though it is none the less to their credit that they have profited so well and so ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 446, July 19, 1884 • Various



Words linked to "Come to the fore" :   step forward, act, move, step to the fore, come forward



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