come up and bite
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]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)
- (colloquial, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To be extremely obvious to (someone), to be impossible for (someone) to miss and ignore.
- These new recruits are terrible soldiers. They wouldn't know what to do with an enemy if one came up and bit them.
- (colloquial, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To clearly expose itself to (someone).
- You really think you can convince the committee? Come on! You wouldn't know charisma if it came up and bit you.