"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 [past], come up and bitten [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|comes up and bites|coming up and biting|came up and bit|come up and bitten}} come up and bite (third-person singular simple present comes up and bites, present participle coming up and biting, simple past came up and bit, past participle come up and bitten)
  1. (colloquial, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To be extremely obvious to (someone), to be impossible for (someone) to miss and ignore. Tags: colloquial, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-come_up_and_bite-en-verb-UA8QsMYj
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To clearly expose itself to (someone). Tags: colloquial, idiomatic
    Sense id: en-come_up_and_bite-en-verb-mRfTlY7i Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 44 56 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 17 83 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 17 83 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 38 62 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 20 80

Inflected forms

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