WALK INTO (SOMETHING)


Meaning of WALK INTO (SOMETHING) in English

walk into something phrasal verb ( see also ↑ walk )

1 . to hit an object accidentally as you are walking along

walk straight/right/bang etc into something

Zeke wasn’t looking and walked straight into a tree.

2 . if you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without intending to:

He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap, and wished he’d come armed.

walk straight/right into something

I walked right into a mob of maybe 50 young white guys.

3 . British English if you walk into a job, you get it very easily:

You can’t expect to walk straight into a job.

4 . to make yourself look stupid when you could easily have avoided it if you had been more careful

walk straight/right into something

You walked right into that one!

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