latch onto sb
informal — phrasal verb with latch /lætʃ/ verb [I or T]Definition
› to stay close to someone or spend a lot of time with them, usually when they do not want you with them: She latched onto me as soon as she arrived, and I had to spend the rest of the evening talking to her.Being, becoming friends and getting to know someone
(Definition of latch onto sb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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