COME TO ONE'S SENSES Definition & Meaning

come to one's senses

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Idioms and Phrases

Return to thinking or behaving sensibly and reasonably; recover consciousness. For example, I wish he'd come to his senses and stop playing around . This term employs senses in the sense of “normal or sane mental faculties,” and in the earliest recorded use (1637) it meant “recover from a swoon.” Its broader present-day meaning dates from the mid-1800s. The related bring someone to his or her senses was used by John Gay in his Beggars' Opera (1727). Also see take leave (of one's senses) .

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"Oh! how dreadful to come to one's senses all at once, as I did—the moment after I had fired that fatal shot—the moment I saw the poor fellow stagger and fall—" "It was you, then, that fired at him," interrupted Sir Ulick.

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Ay, Inger was grown reasonable now; 'tis no little thing to come to one's senses again after a spell.

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V. be sane &c. adj.; retain one's senses, retain one's reason. become sane &c. adj.; come to one's senses, sober down. render sane &c. adj.; bring to one's senses, sober.

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