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to come on over

to come on over

70 2.6
To go to someone's home when they invite you to visit
  • phrasal verb
  • /kʌm ɑn ˈoʊvər/
  • Informal
translation icon : venir a casa
  • Come on over and join me for a drink.
  • come on over here
  • Just come on over
  • Please, come on over

Hey Dog Pack, I was wondering if you could come on over and help me explain.

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Examples

  • "Why don't you just come on over tonight, and we'll just have us another little luau in your honor?"

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Now, come on over here and sit your tush down.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • Now, would you come on over and help me?

    Unknown (2006)

  • Yeah, go ahead, come on over, we'll give you a table.

    The Glimmer Man (1996)

  • If anyone wants some, come on over and dig in.

    Blog text (7)

  • So come on over, enjoy the festive fun and I will see you again very soon.

    Zoella

  • "Why don't you come on over?" Hoot said.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • You should come on over for dinner this Friday.

  • I invited my friends to come on over for a movie night at my place.

  • Whenever you're free, come on over and we'll catch up with each other.

Synonyms

to come by
vsto come on over
  • Informal
506 3.9

Visit someone at home without calling first

require an invitation and focus on a planned social visit

Antonyms

to stay away
590 1.6

Keep a distance from people or things you want to avoid

How Social

to stay over
  • Informal
70 3.0
to come on over
  • Informal
70 2.6
visit
∞ 1.0
to drop by
  • Informal
206 2.5
to pop in
  • Informal
25 3.4

Surface Forms

come on over infinitive
coming on over present participle
comes on over third person singular
came on over past
come on over past participle

Morphology

come + on + over

The meaning 'to go to someone's home' is directly derivable from 'come' (move toward) combined with the particle 'over' (to someone's place); the intervening 'on' functions as a colloquial/discourse particle and does not change the compositional sense. This motion/visit construction is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English phrasal-verb patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Come on over comes from a simple picture: someone says come to ask a friend to move over across the yard or past the door and enter the house. So when people say come on over, they mean 'go to someone's home' or 'come for a visit'.