muscle in
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muscle in (third-person singular simple present muscles in, present participle muscling in, simple past and past participle muscled in)
- (intransitive) To interfere, or intrude forcibly.
- 2021 May 5, Howard Johnston, “Restoring your railway... or just window dressing?”, in RAIL, number 930, page 32:
- The Government's £500 million Restoring Your Railway initiative - awarding small grants to put back lines that should never have been closed - has turned into a muddle because backers of multi-million pound projects have also muscled in.