letting in

Verb

let in (third-person singular simple present lets in, present participle letting in, simple past and past participle let in)

1. (transitive) To let someone or something come in; to admit someone or something in.
   • He opened the window to let in the air.

   Antonyms:

   keep out, lock out

   1. (transitive) To divulge one's inner thoughts to (someone), making oneself emotionally vulnerable to them; to open up to (someone).
      • So tell me when you're gonna let me in / I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin2004, “Somewhere Only We Know”, in Hopes and Fears, performed by Keane
2. (transitive, Oxford University slang) To associate with.
   • He has also been good enough to recommend to me many tradesmen who are ready to supply these articles in any quantities; each of whom has been here already a dozen times, cap in hand, and vowing that it is quite immaterial when I pay—which is very kind of them; but, with the highest respect for...1859, Thomas Hughes, chapter 1, in Tom Brown at Oxford
3. (UK, obsolete, slang) To cheat or victimize.
   • He let me in heavily.