impose on

[impose on] {v.}

To try to get more from (a person who is helping you) than he or she intended to give.

* /Don't you think you are imposing on your neighbor when you use his telephone for half an hour?/

* /You may swim in the Allens' pool so long as you do not impose on them by bringing all your friends./

Compare: TAKE ADVANTAGE.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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