come in for

1. 1.

   be subject to or the object of

   “The governor came in for a lot of criticism”

   Broaderbe

Questions about come in for

What does come in for mean?

come in for means "be subject to or the object of".

Is come in for a common word?

come in for is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.