to eat out
35
1.3
- phrasal verb
- /it aʊt/
:
comer fuera
- We eat out a lot more than we have to.
- eat out frequently
- eat out more
- frequency of eating out
Yeah, like I hit my macros and I ate out all day yesterday.
- Yeah, like I hit my macros and I ate out all day yesterday.
- So so I eat out a little too much.
- Even now, like I just prefer to cook at home rather than eating out.
- No pots and no pans meant no cooking, so the solution was often to eat out.
- And I was like, no, you, you really do you really think you eat out once a week?
- Food is amazing and being able to eat out every day is a huge luxury and I enjoy it.
- Like, so after this pandemic ends, I wonder how many people are going to think maybe I don't need to go back to eating out in expensive restaurants all the time.
Examples
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We're not likely to be eating out much this time.
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Food is amazing and being able to eat out every day is a huge luxury and I enjoy it.
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I travel, I am always eating out, but I find a way to stay in shape no matter what, right?
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OK, for example, if you eat out every so often, what would it look like and feel like to double your spending on it?
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On the way back here, your mom was saying how much she likes eating out.
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We ate out last night.
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On the remaining two days, they would eat out or at her mother's.
Academic text (2006) -
And so was I, and we ate out whenever we could afford to.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, I can't afford to eat out anymore.
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We're going to eat out tonight at our favorite Italian restaurant.
Synonyms
16
1.1
Leave home to eat dinner at a restaurant
8
2.3
To eat a meal at a restaurant or someone else's home instead of your own home
To visit and eat at a restaurant to see what it is like
Antonyms
How Fancy
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to have a meal away from home/at a restaurant' is directly derivable from combining 'eat' (to consume food) with 'out' (away from the interior/home); the particle 'out' signals location away from home, so the composite meaning is predictable. This verb + particle composition is common cross-linguistically and would be understood by a B1 learner who knows both constituents, despite a minor possible ambiguity with literally eating outdoors.
Etymology
Eat out comes from the simple idea of leaving home to eat: eat + out. People would go to a restaurant and literally eat 'out' of their home, so it means 'to have a meal at a restaurant or away from home'.