Term Gallery logo

Meanings of lam into in English

Hit violently, as in an attack.

Synonyms
Examples for "tear into"
Examples for "tear into"
1
As for him, he would love the chance to tear into Bartomeu.
The Guardian
2
He'd just started to tear into me again when the telephone rang.
Hell hath no fury
3
She saw that he brushed more than one tear into the waves.
Opening a Chestnut Burr
4
She just shoved him aside and bent to tear into the reindeer.
Promise of the wolves: a novel
5
He saw them tear into the four men, saw the wounds burst open.
Phantoms
1
She opened her mouth like she was going to lace into him-butthen shrugged.
Second glance
2
These joyful bounds just lace into the stuff of my memories and stay there forever.
Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story
3
Alicia put out her hand and tucked an irrelevant bit of lace into Hilda's bosom.
The Path of a Star
4
So saying the mad girl took up a pair of scissors and cut the lace into fragments.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 2...
5
As soon as we are on the street in front of the boutique I lace into her.
My Sister's Keeper
1
The longing to pitch into somebody was so strong you couldn't resist.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
2
But I'll walk into your parlour, while I pitch into your crib.
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
3
Throw the pitch into that, it's very, very tough for the players.
The Guardian
4
If you don't look out, Gascoyne will pitch into you, old boy.
Gascoyne, The Sandal-Wood Trader: A Tale of the Pacific
5
Do pitch into the broiled bones while they are hot; never mind me.
Castle Richmond
1
The front line of Surakan ships continued to lay into the cruiser.
Envoy
2
Don't think I didn't lay into him after he left you.
A taste of magic
3
Should he lay into me, or drink a beer with me?
Self's punishment
4
Molière introduced a couplet of this lay into his Alceste.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
5
I looked back to see a team of cops lay into her with batons.
Crooked little vein
Usage of lam into in English
1
Is that why he didn't-didn'tlam into me?
Go Set a Watchman
2
And he's got savvee enough to know from now on that that same stone wall will be always there ready for him to lam into.
Burning Daylight
3
You lammed into him, and she took up and defended him.
Bruce
4
How I lammed into the beggar!
The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories
5
"It's the one you lammed into the Huns with," explained Bart.
Army Boys on German Soil: Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs
6
"Then lam into the pirates."
Peter Pan
This collocation consists of: