English-French translations for come by

• mettre la main sur
  Nous vivons dans un monde où la menace posée par les terroristes, qui pourraient également mettre la main sur des armes sales, est plus dangereuse que jamais. We live in a world in which the threat posed by terrorists, who could also potentially come by dirty weapons, is more dangerous now than ever before.

Definition of come by

• To obtain; to get, especially by chance or involuntarily
• To come near to; to pass; to visit
• A command to a sheepdog to move clockwise around the sheep

Examples

• Somehow he came by a substantial fortune
• Your beau came by while you were shopping

Related words

• come
• welcome
• become
• outcome
• comedy
• comer
• overcome
• income
• comet
• comeuppance