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Old 10-Nov-2003, 19:36
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I a brazilian student and I don't know the meaning of the sentence "How has it come to that?"[/b]
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Context is always useful, but it is highly probable that that means how did it get to be that way.

Does that help?

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It suggests that something has gone wrong and the speaker finds it hard to believe that the situation has gone this wrong.
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It's a lament.
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