Hello everybody,
I’d be immensely grateful if you could help with the expression “to come and go”.
I have to translate a sentence where sth “has come and gone”
and I’m not sure about the meaning at all.
Thanks for your help!
Lucie
hello Luseeya. it s quite simple. even you come and go in this world. u come when u are born and u go when you die. 
Hello LuSeeya
This phrase is pretty literal. It means that something has come (arrived) and gone (left). It means to have something and then lose it.
Usually, there is a sense of being a fleeting moment, or only having something for a short duration of time. The phrase may be used to convey a sense of sadness about only being able to enjoy something for a short time.
Would you like to provide us with the exact sentence for further comments?
Hello Skrej,
thanks a lot for your reply, I thought it could be something like that.
The context is easy, it is a text about bank crisis in the USA and the sentence is:
“The first anniversary of credit crunch has come and gone.”
Lu
Heh, okay, so that’s obviously not one of the cases where it carries the ‘sense of sadness’ meaning. 