come on to

English

Verb

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)

1. (transitive, informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to; to hit on.

   He was really coming on to me at the party.

2. To start to.

   It came on to snow after dusk.

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     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Translations

make a romantic or sexual advance to

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can:
• Finnish: iskeä (fi), yrittää (fi)
• French: (slang) draguer (fr)
• German: anmachen (de)
• Italian: flirtare (it)
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can:
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• Korean: please add this translation if you can:
• Mandarin: 轻薄 (zh) (qīngbó), 吃豆腐 (zh) (chī dòufu)
• Polish: flirtować (pl), podrywać (pl)
• Portuguese: dar em cima de
• Russian: закадри́ть (ru) (zakadrítʹ)
• Spanish: (Spain) tirar los tejos (es)