come at
phrasal verbcome at somebody
- [no passive] to move towards somebody as though you are going to attack them
- She came at me with a knife.
- (figurative) The noise came at us from all sides.
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come at something
- to think about a problem, question, etc. in a particular way synonym approach
- We're getting nowhere—let's come at it from another angle.