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December 20

Dialog doubt in No Time to Die

James Bond: What are they burning?

Man: Secrets. Wishes. Letting go of the past. Getting rid of old things, in come the new.

What does "in come" mean? Rizosome (talk) 01:56, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Another way of saying "the new [things] come in" (replacing the "old things"). 2603:6081:1C00:1187:E0EC:C144:25C2:75C6 (talk) 02:12, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's kind of a poetic usage, as in "out go[es] the old, in come[s] the new". The exact form of the verb depending on whether singular or plural objects are being discussed. --←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:39, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The grammatical phenomenon is called subject–verb inversion. As a rhetorical phenomenon, it is known as anastrophe. Next to poetic usage, it is found in Yoda speak. --Lambiam 13:40, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

An idiom usually rendered as "out with the old, in with the new" or "off with the old, on with the new". This language board discussion suggests an origin in a traditional folksong, first published in 1835 but much older: It is best to be off with the old love / Before you are on with the new. Alansplodge (talk) 15:45, 20 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I got the answer from this line: Another way of saying "the new [things] come in" (replacing the "old things"). Rizosome (talk) 01:13, 21 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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