come back to

Meaning

1. Editorial40% of films

   to go back to a place, or to a real or normal situation, after having left

2. Editorial35% of films

   to return to a person you were separated from

3. Oxford15% of films

   to return to sb's memory

4. Oxford5% of films

   to return to a subject, an idea, etc.

In the movies · 41

• Hold on a second, we'll come back to this.Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father2008
• But he keeps coming back to it.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• Why does it always have to come back to this? Because I love you and you love me.The Secret Life of Bees2008
• Come back to me.Arrival2016
• Unbelievable. Come back to your nemesis!Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse2023
• You better come back to me.Thor: Love and Thunder2022
• Come back to base.X-Men Origins: Wolverine2009
• Come back to meDark Phoenix2019

From the same entry

• be as clever, stupid, as they come
• come again
• come and go
• come easily, naturally, to
• come over faint, dizzy, giddy
• come the
• come to nothing
• come to that
• come what may
• how come
• not come to much
• to come

More phrasal verbs

• turn around
• give in
• cheer up
• move in
• set off
• watch out for
• look up to
• check out
• think of
• switch off
• rely on
• move in with