come and go
Alternate in presence
Come and go describes movement in both directions, or repeated arrival and departure.
Things that come and go are temporary or intermittent: The pain comes and goes.
People who come and go pass through without staying: Tenants come and go in that building.
The phrase suggests impermanence—what arrives will eventually leave.
arrival
Act of reaching destination
welcome · farewell · drop-in · stopover · pop-in · turnover · traffic
ebb
Gradual retreat seaward
oscillate · vary · alternate · shift · cycle · intermittent · transient · sporadic · episodic · periodic
- motion idiomsin motion, on the move, on the go, move forward, move along
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- oscillationoscillation, back and forth, back-and-forth, to and fro, ebb and flow
stability/predictability
come and gosteady
Fixed, not fluctuating
stable · consistent · always there · reliable · dependable