[Ads-l] "come" in time expressions

[Mark Mandel]

This reminds me of "rising" with reference to grade/year in school: e.g., a
"rising sophomore" will be in the sophomore class when the school year
begins.

MAM

On Mon, Nov 25, 2019, 10:41 AM Joan Hall <
00000876364530cf-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> DARE has a related sense:
>
>
> 4 come + (a number of years): To approach, be close to.
>
>   *   1931-33 LANE Worksheets<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=L#bibl_13493>
> nwCT,<https://www.daredictionary.com/search?f_0=reglabel&q_0=nwCT> He’s
> coming three.
>   *   Ibid nwRI,<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/search?f_0=reglabel&q_0=nwRI> He’s coming
> three in December.
>   *   1942 Perry Texas<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=P#bibl_7415>
> 91, He was a big bay, coming four years old.
>   *   Ibid 136, We frequently refer to our children not as being, say, six
> years old, but as “coming seven.”
>   *   1949 Guthrie Way West<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=G#bibl_5578> 8
> (as of 1847), I was just thinkin’. Got a girl comin’ seventeen myself.
>   *   1949 PADS<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=A#bibl_13400>
> 11.5 wTX,<https://www.daredictionary.com/search?f_0=reglabel&q_0=wTX>
> Coming twenty (eighteen, etc.). . . Approaching an age of twenty (eighteen,
> etc.). Common in talking of the age of animals. “That horse is six, coming
> seven in the Spring.”
>   *   1954 Harder Coll.<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=H#bibl_5681>
> cwTN<https://www.daredictionary.com/search?f_0=reglabel&q_0=cwTN>, That
> old mule’s coming twenty if he’s a day old.
>   *   c1960 Wilson Coll.<
> https://www.daredictionary.com/bibliography?letterHeading=W#bibl_9019>
> csKY<https://www.daredictionary.com/search?f_0=reglabel&q_0=csKY>, Coming
> twenty (or some other age). . . About to be, especially of animals.
> ↑<https://www.daredictionary.com/view/dare/ID_00011178>
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