Sentence examples for the expression comes from inspiring English sources

I believe the expression comes from cricket, a sport that is intelligible to residents of Commonwealth countries but mystifying to the rest of the world.

"The way you speak the German is clear, but you lose the sense of the legato line, which is where the expression comes from," Ms. Ludwig said.

There was a flash in the pan — that is where the expression comes from — and then nothing.

The expression comes out that was not expected.

This literal understanding of the expression comes across as naïve in today's skin-based world of swipe-right and Viagra.

But it'd be unfortunate if our grandchildren couldn't figure out when the expression came into the language.

"I've started to use the expression 'Come out, come out, wherever you are!' " said Marcus Lewis, who is running as an independent.

Fieger and Co became a guilty pleasure before the expression came into common parlance, with Kurt Cobain performing snatches of "My Sharona" in the early '90s and claiming that Nirvana were "basically Black Sabbath molesting The Knack".

However, the expression came to be applied, by Pylyshyn and others, much more widely in later discussions.

And where did the expression come from in the first place?

Some publications blithely assume the expression to be eponymously derived from the game of eight ball, but it has been pointed out that the expression came into use before eight ball was popularized, and that the game did not even use an actual 8 ball under the version first marketed to the public.