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In my JLPT practise book, there is this question:

> 子供{こども}のけんかに親{おや}が_ ** ___ __**_きた。
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> **A** 乗{の}り越{こ}えて **B** 乗{の}り切{き}って **C** 乗{の}り出{だ}して **D** 踏{ふ}み込{こ}んで

I chose **D** , because it seemed to me that the meaning of `踏{ふ}み込{こ}んで`
means to "bust in on". As in, interrupt the kids who are fighting.

However, the book says the answer is **C** , which seems odd to me because I
thought `乗{の}り出{だ}して` meant something like "to set out to do **_X_** ". Since
the sentence doesn't seem to me to contain the **_X_** action the parents set
out to do, it looks incomplete to me.

So I must not understand the use of `乗{の}り出{だ}して`.

What would be an accurate translation of the sentence, and what exactly is
`乗{の}り出{だ}して`?
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How to use 乗{の}り出{だ}す
First, lets look at why 踏{ふ}み込{こ}んで isn't correct. 踏{ふ}み込{こ}んで can be used as
'step into' as in 部屋に足を踏み込む, but I usually see the case where it is used as
'to make a bold start/to dive into'.

乗{の}り出{だ}す is tricky here, because most of the usage you'll see in news
articles and such is that of 'embark', or 'set out'. The other dictionary
meaning doesn't really fit this question so well either, 'to lean/move
pressingly forward' (the latter from goo's 4th definition:

> ４ からだを前にぐっと出す。「身を―・して演奏を聴く」).

Dictionaries don't always hold all the meanings of a word, especially the
idiomatic ones. So I did a google search for for 親が乗り出す, and there were a
large number of hits similar to the JLPT question where I would translate 乗り出す
as 'intervene in or step into ( a children's fight)" and also as a secondary
meaning as "to get involved (in marital life/decisions involving their
children)"

I looked at many dictionaries and couldn't find any definitions that matched
this one, so perhaps it will do to know that 親が乗り出す has this idiomatic use
case.

For completeness I searched for 親が踏み込む as well, and came across these kinds of
sentences, which does look similar to secondary meaning of 親が乗り出す, to get
involved, but is a bit different from intervening or stepping into a
children's fight:

> 1.子どもには子どもの世界がありますし、そこに親が踏み込むとストレスになるだろうし
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> 2.そこで聞きたいのはもしお子さんが同じようになった場合どこまで親が踏み込むべきなのでしょうか

So while it is close, I think this is a sufficient explanation of 乗り出す to
answer and explain the question.
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