Talk:crowd in on
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This doesn't seem idiomatic to me. — SGconlaw (talk) 09:34, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- To me neither, but see “crowd in on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.. DCDuring (talk) 13:47, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
- "crowd in on" is a known expression to me (BrE). I guess there is a question about whether there should be an entry at crowd in instead of or in addition to this one. Mihia (talk) 01:43, 20 November 2017 (UTC)
- Keep with the use of the lemming heuristic: “crowd in on”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. (oxforddictionaries.com, Macmillan). An alternative is to make it a redirect to crown in, an entry in Merriam-Webster[1]. Similar entries are listed in User:Dan Polansky/Phrasal verbs#Three-word phrasal verb, with links to dicts. --Dan Polansky (talk) 16:31, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
- This expression is familiar to me as well, as is crowd in. Though, I know it with a different definition as well, to mean people essentially invading personal space. (E.g. My aunts and uncles all crowded in on me to say hello.) I think keep--it doesn't seem to me that it can be broken down at all, as crowd in + on is somewhat incoherent (sounding as if people are crowding in atop somebody), nor crowd + in on. I wouldn't, however, support the creation of a crowd in page (my sense of the phrase as meaning "gather together, huddle up"), as per crowd (sense 2) + in. --SanctMinimalicen (talk) 02:07, 20 March 2018 (UTC)
- OK, passed. — SGconlaw (talk) 02:26, 18 April 2018 (UTC)