muscle in
Verb
Meaning
muscle in (third-person singular simple present muscles in, present participle muscling in, simple past and past participle muscled in)
(intransitive) to interfere, or intrude forcibly
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Examples
When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense. I open my eyes and I'm still where I was when I closed them to escape. Nothing's changed.
I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You're using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time.
Although biomineralisation is usually necessary to preserve soft tissue after this time, the presence of polychaete muscle in the nonmineralised Burgess shale shows this need not always be the case.
After a scoreless first period, the Cardinals flexed their special-teams muscle in the second.
After tearing a groin muscle in a fall, Mr. O’Shea, who had Lewy body dementia, entered a North Side rehabilitation facility.
Another trait is that most of the muscle in a crocodile's jaw is arranged for clamping down.