come up and bite
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come up and bite (third-person singular simple present comes up and bites, present participle coming up and biting, simple past and past participle came up and bit)
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To be extremely obvious to (someone), to be impossible for (someone) to miss and ignore.
- These new recruits are terrible soldiers. They wouldn't know what to do with an enemy if one came up and bit them.
- (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To clearly expose itself to (someone).
- You really think you can convince the committee? Come on! You wouldn't know charisma if it came up and bit you.