'Rise from The Ashes' - What does this idiom mean? - 'make a comeback' It's time to Learn English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I would like to talk about a
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very serious subject, if I may.
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Have you ever noticed how sometimes people vanish?
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They disappear.
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In this particular case,
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we are talking about well-known people.
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Famous people, or even organisations or companies.
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They seem to vanish without trace.
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They seem to disappear into thin air.
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However, it is not all bad because sometimes
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those things can suddenly reappear.
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They might suddenly come back into the public domain.
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They might suddenly reappear.
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A famous person who fades away from their fame
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and fortune might suddenly relaunch their career.
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They suddenly come back.
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Perhaps a company that has gone bust,
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it has collapsed.
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Maybe it suddenly returns.
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It relaunches.
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We can
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sometimes say that a thing returns from the dead.
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It comes back from the dead.
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Or maybe it rises from the ashes.
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Like the mythical Phoenix.
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We can say that that particular thing
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has arisen from the ashes.
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It has made a comeback.
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It has returned.
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We often say that what goes around comes around.
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Sometimes a thing disappears.
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But you often find that thing
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reappears at a certain time in the future.
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It comes back.
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It reappears.
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It's rises from the grave.
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It has re-energised itself.
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It has made a comeback.
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