come close

idiom

: to almost do something

We didn't win, but we came close.

—often + to

The band came very close to breaking up.

We came close to winning the championship this season.

: to be similar to something or as good as expected

She said they taste just like real hot dogs, but they don't even come close (to the real thing).

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Put that original version of Leir into any of these fancy language models and run it through a hundred thousand times—you’ll never come close to reproducing the word order the Sweet Swan of Avon came up with. —

Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024 Just as Trump’s many serious flaws have been exaggerated into cliché — Trump is not Hitler, and does not come close to being so — so his opponents’ virtues have been extrapolated into ... —

Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 2 Dec. 2024 Speculation has also been around a long time that other currencies could knock it off its mantle, but no contender has come close. —

Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024 No song in Moana 2 will come close to Frozen or Encanto chart numbers. —

Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 28 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for come close