COME AT (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING)


Meaning of COME AT (SOMEBODY/SOMETHING) in English

come at somebody/something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ come )

1 . to move towards someone in a threatening way:

Suddenly, he came at me with a knife.

2 . if images, questions, facts etc come at you, you feel confused because there are too many of them at the same time:

Questions were coming at me from all directions.

3 . informal to consider or deal with a problem in a particular way SYN approach :

We need to come at the problem from a different angle.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.