wade in
— phrasal verb with wade uk/weɪd/us/weɪd/verb
to start to do or say something in a forceful way, often without thinking about it carefully:
Even when she knows nothing about it, she wades in with her opinion.
When the crowd started throwing bottles, the police waded in with tear gas.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Starting and beginning
- be in the first flush of idiom
- become
- begin
- branch out
- break into sth
- export
- go ahead
- ground
- incipient
- initiator
- instate
- introduce
- kick
- kick-start
- strike
- swing into action idiom
- touch sth off
- train
- trigger
- weave
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