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Meanings of dine out in English

Eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home.

Synonyms
Examples for "eat out"
Examples for "eat out"
1
You will see adventures walk up and eat out of my hand.
The Make-Believe Man
2
He had them where they had to eat out of his hand.
Oh, You Tex!
3
Last summer I got her so she'd eat out of my hands.
The Hunted Woman
4
Practical theorists condemned to rust too often eat out their own hearts.
At a Winter's Fire
5
She can get them to come and eat out of her hand.
The Mammoth Hunters
Usage of dine out in English
1
Ci Ci will, of course, dine out on it after I've gone.
East of the sun
2
To-day we dine out; and set out for Cambridge on Saturday morning.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 / The Letters of C...
3
He will deservedly dine out on this heist for all his days.
The Guardian
4
I dine out with fools, and shall rejoice to see you afterwards.
Denzil Quarrier
5
We are just going to dine out at the Duchess of Stevenage's.
The Way We Live Now
6
Let us dine out to-day, he continued, with a tender, pitying smile.
Jack / 1877
7
I don't know how to give dinners, and I never dine out.
Fragments of Science: A Series of Detached Essays, Addresses, an...
8
Does she dine out every where, as well as at my sister's?
Mansfield Park
9
In London fashionable people dine out four, five times a week.
Jonathan strange and mr norrell
10
Since I came in I have refused an invitation to dine out to-night.
December Love
11
That evening Miriam had an engagement to dine out, together with the Spences.
The Emancipated
12
They were going to dine out of doors this fine night.
The Secret of the Night
13
He could dine out, and play cricket, and read a novel.
An Old Man's Love
14
Endymion had been engaged to dine out, but had excused himself.
Endymion
15
Again, as long as you follow certain guidelines, you can dine out on Atkins.
The new atkins for a new you: the ultimate diet for shedding wei...
16
It's a sign of a great book when you dine out on its yarns.
The Irish Times
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Dine out through the time
Dine out across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common