come on to

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.

   Synonyms: hit on, make a pass

   He was really coming on to me at the party.

   • 1980 August 9, John D'Emilio, “There's No Place Like Home”, in Gay Community News, page 9:

     Sometimes I go to bed alone, horny and frustrated, angry at myself for not being more assertive and coming on to a new man who excited me.

2. To start to.

   It came on to snow after dusk.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     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.

• come-on (noun)

• come on (verb)