light into

Language: en

Meaning: (transitive,idiomatic)Toset uponorattack.1885,Mark Twain, chapter 22, inHuckleberry Finn:[H]elit intothat horse with his whip.1915,Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, inAnne of the Island:[S]helit intoeverybody else in the church and gave them a fearful raking down, calling them right out by name and telling them how they all had behaved, and casting up all the quarrels and scandals of the past ten years.1935April 25, “U.S. Judge and Wife Killed by Bandits”, inMontreal Gazette, retrieved 16 Jan. 2010:"Father grabbed the two guns and told me tolight intothe other man. I jumped on him and started choking him."2003January 13, Diane Roberts, “Graham would make Florida proud”, inSt. Petersburg Times, retrieved 16 Jan. 2010:He speaks with more passion than ever,lighting intoGeorge W. Bush for fumbling the economy.

Examples:Note: the examples for non latin scripts have a high likelihood of mistakes, we do not own any of this data and it is sourced from Wiktionary, the NLLB database and Opensubtitles. Please help us improve this by contributing correct examples. We will be working to fix this issue over time however it is a bigger issue due to the the difficulties in dealing with non latin scripts and grammatical structures(non-romantic/european languages have lower resources as well ).

Validation Count: 0

Sourced from Wiktionary