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Meaning: (idiomatic)Toreawakenafter having lostconsciousness.1884,Wilkie Collins,Mr. Lepel and the Housekeeper, First Epoch:[H]e dropped from his seat at my side, like a man struck dead. The stifling heat in the theater had proved too much for him. We carried him out at once into the fresh air. When hecame to his senses, my friend entreated me to leave him, and see the end of the play.1904,David Graham Phillips, chapter 25, inThe Cost:He turned toward the door, plunged forward, fell unconscious. . . . When hecame to his senseshe was in his bed—comfortable, weak, lazy.2015September 1, Aadya Sharma, “Sairaj Bahutule: Indian domestic cricket legend”, insportskeeda.com, retrieved2 October 2016:The accident sent Bahutule into coma straight away. When hecame to his senses, he lay in bed with a fractured right femur bone and a crushed left elbow.; (idiomatic)To becomereasonable,comprehending, orresponsible, especially after having behaved in an unreasonable, confused, uncomprehending, or irresponsible manner.1904,E. W. Hornung, chapter 32, inAt Large:Dick had not been altogether in his right senses. . . . He found his mother weeping as though her heart would break; whereat his own heart smote him so that hecame to his sensesthere and then, and knelt in humility and shame at her feet.1928,D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIX, inLady Chatterley’s Lover,[Germany?]: Privately printed,→OCLC:"I shall never divorce you," he said, as if a nail had been driven in. . . .She went upstairs and told Hilda the upshot."Better get away tomorrow," said Hilda, "and let himcome to his senses."1956January, M. D. Greville, “Scottish Railways in 1856”, inRailway Magazine, page53:Thus, after eighteen months of fantastic and ruinous warfare, the companies hadcome to their sensesand agreed to do what they might have done at the start; the only gainers were the passengers who had been carried at ridiculously uneconomic fares.2010January 26,Bobby Ghosh, “The Haiti Earthquake”, inTime, retrieved2 October 2016:"She is mad with sorrow, but maybe after a few days she willcome to her senses," says one man.
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