stick/put your oar in

UK informal

Definition

› to involve yourself in a discussion or situation when other people do not want you to: We'd just reached a decision when Jack came along and stuck his oar in.

(Definition of stick/put your oar in from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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