to ask out
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2.3
- phrasal verb
- /æsk aʊt/
:
invitar a salir
- I asked him out to dinner.
And I know I was asked out to prom and I said no.
- And I know I was asked out to prom and I said no.
- And yeah, so I asked him out, which was really brave of me.
- Guys asking me out but the attraction is not mutual.
- Please don't ask out your bartenders who were just working.
- Now, you know, you see an old girl that you never asked out and then there she is.
- Like, I think that's I think she's it and asked me out in the parking lot.
- Make her text you, make her ask you out.
- And yeah, he never asked me out again.
- What if that person that you're married to now, you would have waited to ask them out five more years?
- Who made the first move and how did he or you ask each other out?
- Whatever it is, ask her out.
- Or just even in high school, how do guys ask you out on a date?
- Well, you'd take action, you'd ask for that pay rise, you'd ask that person out.
- I was like, well, no, I'm actually not asking you out on a second day.
- No, I'm saying that Vanessa is into you and you should ask her out.
Examples
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So I asked him out.
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If you're planning on asking me out, you might as well get it over with.
Fiction book (1999) -
So to go back to our examples about should I ask this person out on a date?
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You should definitely ask her out or something.
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How about if I asked you out now?
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If I had asked you out on a date, what would you have said?
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And I would love to ask you out sometime.
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Then nobody said anything for a painful few seconds, and he asked her out to dinner.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm gonna ask Bridget out finally.
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After weeks of flirting, he finally decided to ask out the girl he liked.
Synonyms
173
2.3
To invite someone to go out with you for a date
12
3.1
To ask someone to go with you to a social event like dinner, often as a date
3
1.2
Ask someone to join you for an evening meal
Antonyms
How Serious
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3.5
363
2.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The combination of 'ask' (to request) + 'out' (to go out) yields a plausible meaning of inviting someone to go out socially, so learners who know both words can often infer an invitation. However, the specific romantic/date nuance and the phrasal-verb reading ('ask out' as a single lexical unit) are not fully predictable without exposure. Cross-linguistic parallels (e.g. languages that use a 'go out' construction for dating) increase partial recognizability but not full transparency.
Etymology
The phrase ask out comes from the simple image of ask plus out: you ask someone to go out with you, to leave home for dinner or a show. So ask out now means 'to invite someone on a date'.