come to find out

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Phrase

come to find out

1. (especially Southern US) Turn out.
   • 1945, Walter Rogers, Elizabeth Rogers, John Donar: Common Man, page 89:

     Come to find out, the company kept 2 sets of books.

   • 1974, Alan W. Garey, “Helicopter Operations at Civil Airports”, in Approach: The Naval Aviation Safety Review, page 25:

     It's not listed anywhere. So, a phone call is made to Podunk – and come to find out, the airport is a grass field.

   • 1989, Francis L. Gross, Searching for God, page 123:

     And come to find out, he don't think.

   • 1997, Leslie Leyland Fields, The Entangling Net: Alaska's Commercial Fishing Women Tell Their Lives, page 119:

     Well, come to find out, these survival suits haven't been out of their sacks for years.

   • 2009, Bobby Rose, Bama Sweetheart, page 293:

     Well, come to find out they won and got married today on television, all expenses paid.