English

Verb

come on to ‎(third-person singular simple present comes on to, present participle coming on to, simple past came on to, past participle come on to)

1. (transitive, informal) To make a romantic or sexual advance to; to hit on.

   He was really coming on to me at the party.‎

2. To start to.

   It came on to snow after dusk.‎

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

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