come on to
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]come on to (third-person singular simple present comes on to, present participle coming on to, simple past came on to, past participle come on to)
- (transitive, informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to.
- Synonyms: hit on, make a pass
- He was really coming on to me at the party.
- 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
- Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me.
- (slang, transitive) To harass (someone).
- To start to.
- It came on to snow after dusk.
- 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:
- She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
Derived terms
[edit]- come-on (noun)
Related terms
[edit]- come on (verb)
Translations
[edit]make a romantic or sexual advance to
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