walk into something phrasal verb (see also walk)

1. to hit an object accidentally as you are walking along
walk straight/right/bang etc into something
Zeke wasn’t looking and walked straight into a tree.

2. if you walk into an unpleasant situation, you become involved in it without intending to:
He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap, and wished he’d come armed.
walk straight/right into something
I walked right into a mob of maybe 50 young white guys.

3. British English if you walk into a job, you get it very easily:
You can’t expect to walk straight into a job.

4. to make yourself look stupid when you could easily have avoided it if you had been more careful
walk straight/right into something
You walked right into that one!

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲