come on to

present singular third person comes on to · participle present coming on to · past came on to

1. informaltransitiveTo make a romantic or sexual advance to.

   He was really coming on to me at the party.

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   Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me.

   1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9

   Synonyms: hit on, make a pass

2. slangtransitiveTo harass (someone).
3. 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 realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

   1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1