Talk:bump into

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Ruakh

The second sense isn't really idiomatic, is it? Interplanet Janet 11:43, 12 February 2010 (UTC)Reply

I think you're right: the sense of “collide” can be conveyed by bump alone, and into is used to construe a fair number of collision-related verbs (not only verbs where the collision is already implicit — “collide into”, “crash into”, and so on — but also verbs of motion, where the into-phrase adds that sense — “run into”, “walk into”, and so on.) I'll fix the entry. —RuakhTALK 12:17, 12 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
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