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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Certain to get or have
Example:
he knew he was in for a licking
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Similar:
certain; sure (certain to occur; destined or inevitable)
Context examples:
You’ve two horses in for the Wessex Cup—Silver Blaze and Bayard.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yes; once, while she was staying in this house, I happened to drop in for ten minutes; and I saw quite enough of her.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Fanny, being always a very courteous listener, and often the only listener at hand, came in for the complaints and the distresses of most of them.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then you must be Sir Stephen Mackworth, for I learn that when old Sir Guy died he came in for the arms and the name, the war-cry and the profit.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He’s not got blood enough to go in for felony with impunity.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And now, Jim, we're to go in for this here treasure-hunting, with sealed orders too, and I don't like it; and you and me must stick close, back to back like, and we'll save our necks in spite o' fate and fortune.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
You might decide to have an annual medical exam, always a good idea. (My doctor makes me do it, so I do.) If you do go in for your exam, you are likely to get the final results by January 10.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Charles Musgrove, indeed, afterwards, shewed more of inclination; the child was going on so well, and he wished so much to be introduced to Captain Wentworth, that, perhaps, he might join them in the evening; he would not dine from home, but he might walk in for half an hour.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Two simultaneous exchanges with the left made a clap like a pistol-shot, and then as Harrison rushed in for a fall, Wilson slipped him, and over went my old friend upon his face, partly from the impetus of his own futile attack, and partly from a swinging half-arm blow which the west-countryman brought home upon his ear as he passed.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall not trouble the reader with the particular account of my reception at this court, which was suitable to the generosity of so great a prince; nor of the difficulties I was in for want of a house and bed, being forced to lie on the ground, wrapped up in my coverlet.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
