"come up and bite" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: comes up and bites [present, singular, third-person], coming up and biting [participle, present], came up and bit [participle, past], came up and bit [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|comes up and bites|coming up and biting|came up and bit}} come up and bite (third-person singular simple present comes up and bites, present participle coming up and biting, simple past and past participle came up and bit)
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To be extremely obvious to (someone), to be impossible for (someone) to miss and ignore. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-come_up_and_bite-en-verb-UA8QsMYj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53
  2. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To clearly expose itself to (someone). Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-come_up_and_bite-en-verb-mRfTlY7i Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 53 47 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53

Inflected forms

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