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this is where I came in
This is where I came in.
Fig. I have heard all this before. (Said when a situation begins to seem repetitive, as when a film one has seen part of before reaches familiar scenes.) John sat through a few minutes of the argument, and when Tom and Alice kept saying the same thing over and over John said, "This is where I came in," and left the room. The speaker stood up and asked again for a new vote on the proposal. "This is where I came in," muttered Jane as she headed for the door.
this is where I came in
This is where I began, my knowledge dates from this point. For example, Do you have anything more to add, because if not, this is where I came in. This idiom, dating from the 1920s, originally alluded to the continuous showing of a motion picture, with customers entering the theater at any stage while the film was running and leaving when it reached the point where they had started.
This is where I came in
sent. This all seems very familiar. This is where I came in. It’s the same thing all over again.
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
Usha | | - | Hinduism, Indian, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali |
Ysolt | | - | Arthurian Romance |
Claus | | KLOWS | German, Danish |
TomÁS | | to-MAHS (Spanish), too-MASH (Portuguese) | Spanish, Portuguese, Irish |
Liselot | | - | Dutch |
OctÁVio | | - | Portuguese |