move in on (someone or something)

1. To advance on someone's or something's position, especially so as to capture or attack them or it. Police officers began moving in on the suspect's location. The pack of wolves moved in on the injured deer.

2. To advance on someone or something in order to exert control over or derive some benefit from them or it, usually when doing so is unwelcome. Are you trying to move in on my girlfriend? Why are you always flirting with her? I just hope that new shop doesn't move in on our business.

See also: move, on

See also:

a ragged colt may make a good horse
colt
ragged
a track record
the rubber hits the road
the rubber meets the road
be (not) a patch on
on present form
a nail in somebody's/something's coffin
read as

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