come up and bite (English, verb)
expansion: 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)
Senses:
glosses: To be extremely obvious to (someone), to be impossible for (someone) to miss and ignore.
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
raw_tags: in the negative
glosses: To clearly expose itself to (someone).
tags: colloquial
idiomatic
raw_tags: in the negative
Forms:
form: comes up and bites
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coming up and biting
tags: participle
present
form: came up and bit
tags: past
form: come up and bitten
tags: participle
past