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neck
pitch in
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plunge in/plunge into something
punch above your weightidiom
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thick

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interloper | American Dictionary

interloper
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪn·tərˌloʊ·pər/
someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked or wanted, or who enters a place without being allowed:
We felt like interlopers when we tried to join the game.

Examples of interloper

interloper
He then designates some as deserving and others as imposters and interlopers.
Not only did these interlopers represent interests often opposed to those of the settlers, but they contradicted the social relations of power on the ground.
The incongruent question follows the disruption in which an interloper stuffed toy pushes the card to rest under the second picture.
The door of public services accessible to all was not slammed shut on interlopers and thieves.
His dependent status makes him an interloper but not yet a threat.
Information disseminated by interlopers, working on local suspicions, bred misconceptions-a catalyst that accelerated and intensified the collision of civilizations.
The patent system protects the discoveries of a company so that an interloper might not jump in unfairly to take advantage.
The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: do experimentally presented interlopers have any effect?
However, he suggests that attitudes remained the same mixture of paternal provision and regulation of the ' settled ' poor, with harsh exclusion and prosecution of interlopers.
It is also a means of excluding interlopers.
Given this character of entrepreneurship, one should pay particular attention to institutional boundaries themselves, especially their permeability to outsiders, or entrepreneurial interlopers.
It is easy enough to see that an incumbent alliance has a first-mover advantage when it lobbies the government to exclude interlopers who are in a position to undercut.
Indeed, as the female war-text also makes clear, witnessing the business of war, like the unwritability trope, is a privilege that men jealously guard against female interlopers.
Manso then turned to those interlopers and ordered them to vacate the premises.
Such interlopers could not be reliably identified, let alone accurately placed within the social hierarchy, because there seemed little way to prevent them from disseminating false stories about themselves.
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