set on
phrasal verbset on/upon somebody
- [usually passive] to attack somebody suddenly
- I opened the gate, and was immediately set on by a large dog.
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set somebody/something on somebody
- to make a person or an animal attack somebody suddenly
- The farmer threatened to set his dogs on us.