Know your English | What does ‘to barge in on’ mean? Premium

To barge in on; Overpriced and expensive

When you ‘barge in on someone’, you intrude on the individual; you walk into their room without their permission — very often, upsetting the person. You interrupt, quite rudely, whatever it is the person is doing. It is also possible to ‘barge in on someone’s conversation’. When you do this, you rudely interrupt a conversation that two people are having; you poke your nose into something that you have no business doing.

From now on, make it a point to knock. Don’t just barge in.

Raj has the irritating habit of barging in on everyone’s conversation.

The expression can also be used to mean ‘to bump into or collide with someone or something’. In this case, you ‘barge into someone or something’.

I nearly barged into Tara as I was turning the corner.

The car skidded on the ice and barged into a big tree.