barge in

Idioms and Phrases

Enter rudely or abruptly, intrude. For example, Her mother never knocks but just barges in . The term is also put as barge into or barge in on to mean interrupt, as in Who asked you to barge into our conversation ? These phrases use to barge in the sense of “bump into” or “knock against,” which may allude to the propensity of these clumsy vessels to collide with other craft. [Late 1800s]