coming into court
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8.3
- noun
- Formal
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- Many witnesses were called to testify before coming into court to share their accounts.
- come into court and testify
- come into court and say
- witnesses to come into court
Examples
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If you had come into court when I asked you to... this land might not have been--
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I cannot come into court and swear that he was with me at the time it was done.
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During the course of the proceedings, he came into court one morning.
Academic text (2001) -
I can assure you, lord, it is sufficient to justify her case should it come into court.
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And what happens is the corporations come into court, and corporation lawyers are very clever.
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The pharmaceutical companies need to come into court just like other manufacturers and convince us of the safety of their products.
Blog text (28) -
"It's a win-win for everybody," Burke says. "Judges like it because now people come into court better prepared for their matters."
Academic text (2011) -
" They don't want to come into court represented by all-white male lawyers from Harvard."
Academic text (2004) -
On the other hand, Aron says that if a parent is doing everything he or she can, "and if it's the bureaucracy that's blocking them, I will not be hesitant about coming into court and laying waste to a social worker."
Academic text (2002) -
The defendant will be coming into court to present his case next week.
Synonyms
120
7.0
A person going to court to be present in a legal case
Being present at a court or hearing when the law requires it
Antonyms
- Formal
A failure by a person to come to a place they should, often in court or at a meeting
How Formal
- Specialized
545
4.5
- Formal
4
8.3
- Formal
384
3.3
- Specialized
29
3.7
3
5.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase literally composes 'coming' (arrival) + 'into' (movement into) + 'court' (legal venue), so a B1 learner who knows those words would readily infer it means arriving or appearing at court. Although formal/legal in register, the meaning follows straightforward compositional logic and is cross-linguistically predictable, making it immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Coming into court may come from the clear image of someone physically coming into the court to stand in front of a judge. So, it now means 'the formal appearance' of a person before a judge.