单词 | to ask back |
释义 | > as lemmasto ask back to ask back 1. transitive. To invite to accompany one to one's place of residence. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > invitation > invite [verb (transitive)] bidc1200 prayc1300 desirec1325 invite1553 convite1568 indite1599 encourage1728 book1840 to ask back1844 1844 C. G. F. Gore Popular Member I. iv. 87 Perceval spelt so hard this morning at the Asylum to be asked back to dine and sleep at Stainhurst. 1963 Guardian 25 July 5/3 Miss Barrett..met Ward when he spoke to her in Oxford Street. He asked her back to his flat. She went, and had intercourse with him. 2009 S. Guillebaud More than Conquerors xi. 162 After one such tutorial in the first term, a similarly bedraggled young man asked me back for a ‘coffee’! 2. transitive. To invite to come back again. ΚΠ 1857 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Jan. 30/1 I shall..get upon the most intimate terms, and so be ‘asked back’. 1891 A. M. Harrison Story Life Mackay of Uganda xi. 145 Even were we to leave we should soon be asked back. 1950 K. Ferrier Let. 15 June (2003) iv. 121 The crits are marvellous..and I've been asked back for a recital. 2010 R. Gurney Digging for Austral. ix. xxxii. 286 Alex asked me back for a second more formal interview. 3. transitive. To invite in return for an earlier invitation that was accepted. ΚΠ 1859 Getting On II. xxxix. 295 He lived as solitary a life as a hermit,..from fear of meeting a friend who might ask him to his rooms, and expect to be asked back in return.] 1862 A. Robins Present Position ‘Liberal’ Party ii. 28 A peer would entertain an emancipated pauper to a cutlet every day; and then the peer would be asked back by the emancipated pauper. 1910 J. Ayscough Mezzogiorno x. 55 Tripoli is at all events hospitable... Gillian, how can we ask anybody back—here? 1922 ‘R. Crompton’ More William (1924) xiv. 231 But if he asks you to his you must ask him back. 1996 S. Figiel Where we once Belonged (1998) 23 It's not half as much fun when they play alone and..they'll ask us back anyway. < as lemmas |
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