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Phrase(s): ask someone out (to something) 1. [and] ask someone out (for something)
to invite someone to go out (to something or some place) [on a date]. • He asked her out to dinner, but she had other plans. • She couldn’t go, so he asked out someone else. • Liz asked Carl out for dinner. 2. to invite someone for a visit to a place in the country or some other location remote from the center of things. • Tom must be tired of the city. Let’s ask him out to our place. • I don’t want to ask out everyone in the whole family again. • Oh, let’s ask him out anyway., Phrase(s): ask someone out (for something)
Go to ask someone out (to something) 1. and ask someone out (for something)
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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Invite someone to something, such as dinner, the theater, or a date. For example, We've been asked out to dinner twice this week, or Mary felt shy about asking John out. [Late 1800s]
American Heritage Idioms