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barge in
Idioms and Phrases
Enter rudely or abruptly, intrude. For example, Her mother never knocks but just barges in . The term is also put as barge into or barge in on to mean interrupt, as in Who asked you to barge into our conversation ? These phrases use to barge in the sense of “bump into†or “knock against,†which may allude to the propensity of these clumsy vessels to collide with other craft. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
Blueseed planned to anchor a floating residential barge in international waters off the coast of Northern California.
These outsiders haven’t arrived to insult and evade, nor to barge in and convert.
Thankfully, the story arc is designed so that chaos keeps barging in, most delightfully in the form of a scene stealer named ParTeb, a goofball from Tunisia who presents as a saucy green alien.
I realize it was a bit of an unusual move to just barge in, but, seemingly unfazed, she smiled back.
During the knock, he was involved in an altercation with Kohli, who was fined for what was deemed a shoulder barge in the middle.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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