"come up and bite" meaning in English

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Verb

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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21
  2. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To clearly expose itself to (someone). Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-come_up_and_bite-en-verb-mRfTlY7i

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for come up and bite meaning in English (1.8kB)

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