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when it comes to
Idioms and Phrases
Also, if or when it comes right down to . As regards, when the situation entails. For example, When it comes to renting or buying, you'll spend about the same amount . It is also put as when it comes down to it or that , as in If it comes right down to it, they said you could visit any time you're able to , or When it comes to that, we can lend you the fare . This idiom uses come to in the sense of “amount to” or “be equivalent to.” [Second half of 1700s]Example Sentences
But as breathtaking as "One to One" proves to be as a documentary experience—and there are few better when it comes to Lennon and The Beatles—the real message is unmistakable: in a world that challenges our values at every turn, that attempts to drain our efforts to be ineluctably human and serve our fellow citizens, apathy can never be allowed to win out.
When it comes to fighting inertia and dreaming of a better life for everyone regardless of race or station, John and Yoko have very genuine peers.
When it comes to tax cuts, they typically claim that cuts will pay for themselves with increased economic activity, despite clear and repeated evidence that they typically do not.
We have Supreme Court justices who want to go to the pre-enlightenment era, who invoke medieval law when it comes to women's rights; this is like pre-founding, and these guys are supposedly originalists, but in terms of our Bill of Rights, and in terms of the Reconstruction constitution, they particularly hate the 14th Amendment.
So, yes, the EU can bite - hard - as well as bark when it comes to retaliating against Donald Trump's tariffs.
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