WordNet
adj. certain to get or have; "he knew he was in for a licking" [syn: in for(p)]
Usage examples of "in for".
It might have been a sign the invaders were settling in for a long stay.
Gwendolyn or the two hundred people of neighboring villages that had come in for shelter.
After all, though it was larger than the cage he had been in for the previous three days, Petra was still a cage.
The wind was coming in pretty good too, and if his knee was any indication of impending rain, Savannah was going to be in for some by evening.
Cursing the aged crone who had a penchant for laudanum and a tongue clove in twain like most mean old serpents, he staggered to the door to let her in for a morning teaspoon of pain relief.
If he was home, Otto would just hang up and he and Blake would go over there and bring him in for some tough questioning.
When the food tumbled from her hands to the ground, the miniature kuda-rung swooped in for the feast.
She wondered if he would try to bring her in for questioning, after seeing her here.
She happened to know a high-placed lieutenant in a local crime ring had once lived along this stretch of Keswick, until his conscience had gotten the better of him and he turned his best friend in for murder.
Hollister, with a report on the extended repairs and probable performance limits of the ship until it went in for refitting.
English schoolboys holidaying in America, who had been raked in for the programme, and one was me.
Daikaku Ji, at four in the afternoon, I sat at a table and chair which were specially brought in for me, as there are no tables and chairs in temples, to try to do automatic drawing.
Dad had actually put in for this latest transfer, though, and it was no hardship saying good-bye to the flat, featureless landscape and insultingly cold winters of the Canadian prairie.
As time went on, however, a court date was set, and I was called in for a deposition, as were some former employees.
A third of the television audience that night tuned in for my last episode.