Dig someone out of a hole, or do something that turns the tide and turns the situation into a success, particularly at the last minute and when unexpected, with all hope lost.
Same as come through for someone in the clutch, only an older phrase, and more precise, better conveying the sense of "in the nick of time", and "unexpected".
Look at it like this- played out action movie scenario: there are three guys fighting. 2 vs 1. One of them gets knocked out cold, and then the guy that knocked him out pulls out a gun and is about to finish off the other guy. Just when he is about to pull the trigger and send him to kingdom come, he gets hit in the head/ shot in the back etc by someone, and we see that someone is the guy who was out cold.
He came up trumps.
My old junker broke down and left me stranded in the middle of nowhere, but this guy came up trumps and gave me a ride.
#come up trumps
This bully started pushing me around, but Daniel came up trumps just when I was about to get my ass kicked big time, and took him down a few pegs.
The one phrase which states quite clearly, the sarcastic way to finish an argument against something.
Said sarcastically or angrily, more or less, with a short burst of temper .
If someone doesn't like your opinion on anything, pretty much, this is said in huge retort to that, and pretty much defines your strong position to it.
"What? You don't like Zelda Breath of the Wild? Fine! Torches are on the left, pitchforks are on the right. Come and get me!"
“You come for a scrap eh?!” - A term used by North Yorkshire men such Captain Grimm who aren’t actually up for a fight, they just say it to cover up their crippling social anxiety.
“Oi mate I stamped on yer whippersnapper last night, it went all pop and sh*t innit.”
“Oi you come for a scrap eh?”
stop saying *the best is yet to come* when it just makes things worse
Never giving up on him. Never letting go of my relationship... Welcome to death row
I'm not coming up off him, I'm not coming up off her
An event that never takes place because anyone who participates in the practice of playing a trumpet would not ever want to leave due to the high levels of enjoyability.
Friend 1: so I was coming home from trumpet practice...
Friend 2: stop lying man, I know you don’t play trumpet. Anyone who did wouldn’t just “come home from trumpet practice”
Come on the boys! Is a phrase made by “Ben Foster” the Watford goalkeeper. He does YouTube and his name is Cycling GK (This is by him cycling a lot)
“Ooh and some ketchup with that, I will see you tomorrow for the game. Come on the boys!”