单词 | to ask out |
释义 | > as lemmasto ask out to ask out transitive. To invite to an entertainment or on a date. ΚΠ 1845 G. Webster Disputed Inheritance I. vi. 125 I was asked out to a scrap dinner. 1864 H. C. Adams White Brunswickers x. 167 Billy moved heaven and earth to get asked out on the same days. 1888 R. Kipling In Pride of Youth in Plain Tales from Hills 183 Now and again he was asked out to dinner. 1934 H. G. Wells Exper. in Autobiogr. II. viii. 532 People..were beginning to ask us out. 1949 E. Atkinson & G. Atkinson Perfect Idiot i. 25 She stood me up at the last minute—the only time I asked her out. Gave me some flimsy excuse. And I made the date weeks ahead. 1979 M. Kolbenschlag Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-bye 54 Every woman knows what it is to be ‘ditched’ of an evening by a female friend, when that significant ‘One’ phones and asks her out. 2006 New Yorker 16 Oct. 51/1 Roger..gets up the nerve to ask out his secret dream girl. < as lemmas |
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