come in for

present singular third person comes in for · participle present coming in for · past came in for

1. transitiveTo be subjected to.

   If you go into the forest, you'll come in for a nasty surprise.

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   The director came in for a lot of criticism about the way she handled the disaster.

   The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers).

   1960 February 28, R. K. Kirkland, “The Great Western and Brentford Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 79

   As the Quakers are pacifists, they came in for community censure for deciding to join the fight for independence, but their conscience demanded a reconsideration of their pacifism.

   2019 September 17, Edward Snowden, Permanent Record, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, page 33

   [Katherine] Parkinson has come in for especially sustained attacks, given that her breakout role was in The IT Crowd, made by Graham Linehan, who is on the same side as [JK] Rowling when it comes to gender.

   2025 June 11, Stuart Heritage, “‘Please walk away from Harry Potter’: why the stars of HBO’s new TV show are in for decades of social media hell”, in The Guardian, →ISSN