Usually means: Prove beneficial in specific situations.
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  1. come in useful: Merriam-Webster
  2. come in useful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. come in useful: Dictionary.com
  4. come in useful: Wiktionary

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  1. come in useful: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (come in useful)

▸ verb:  Synonym of come in handy

Similar:
avail, be good for, could do with, lie in the way, convenience, behove, lend itself to, can do with, suffice, bestand, more...

Opposite:
be of no use, be useless, be unhelpful, be irrelevant

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Similar:
avail, be good for, could do with, lie in the way, convenience, behove, lend itself to, can do with, suffice, bestand, more...

Opposite:
be of no use, be useless, be unhelpful, be irrelevant



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