ask for someone
1ask for someone's indulgence — ask for/beg/crave/etc someone’s indulgence spoken formal phrase used for asking someone to be patient while you say or do something I wonder, could I just crave your indulgence very briefly? Thesaurus: ways of telling or asking someone to… …
2ask for — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms ask for : present tense I/you/we/they ask for he/she/it asks for present participle asking for past tense asked for past participle asked for 1) ask for something to speak or write to someone because you want… …
3ask for — verb increase the likelihood of (Freq. 4) ask for trouble invite criticism • Syn: ↑invite • Derivationally related forms: ↑invitation (for: ↑invite) …
4ask for one's hand — {v. phr.} To ask permission to marry someone. * / Sir, John said timidly to Mary s father, I came to ask for your daughter s hand. / …
5ask for one's hand — {v. phr.} To ask permission to marry someone. * / Sir, John said timidly to Mary s father, I came to ask for your daughter s hand. / …
6ask\ for\ one's\ hand — v. phr. To ask permission to marry someone. Sir, John said timidly to Mary s father, I came to ask for your daughter s hand …
7ask for a rain check — ask (someone) for a rain check American, informal I ll take a rain check something that you say when you cannot accept someone s invitation to do something but you would like to do it another time. I was supposed to see Marge on Saturday I ll… …
8ask for it — if you say that someone who gets hurt or punished was asking for it, you mean that they deserved what happened to them. Picking a fight with those hooligans was really asking for it. Fired? Well, she asked for it, didn t she? …
9ask — [ æsk ] verb *** > 1 try to get information > 2 tell someone you want something > 3 expect something > 4 say you want something done > 5 invite someone to do something >+ PHRASES 1. ) intransitive or transitive to speak or write …
10be a dead ringer for someone — be a dead ringer for (someone/something) to look very similar to someone or something. He s a dead ringer for Bono from U2 people often come up to him in the street and ask for his autograph …
