From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmake/stage a comebackmake/stage a comebackFASHIONABLEif a person, activity, style etc makes a comeback, they become popular again after being unpopular for a long time The miniskirt made a comeback in the late 1980s. → comeback
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make/stage a comeback• Not that pale faces are making a comeback.• But since then it has been making a comeback.• Even the poisonous dinitrophenol made a comeback.• But Route 66 is making a comeback.• But now at Shortwood farm in Herefordshire, the binder is making a comeback.• The miniskirt made a comeback in the late 1980s.• Rab tried to stage a comeback.• But for Jones, still troubled by injury, and Barnes, yet to make a comeback, it is still too early.• They, too, made a comeback, winning the presidency with Jimmy Carter in 1976. 