dine : Idioms & Phrases
dine in
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verb eat at home
eat in.
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dine out
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verb eat at a restaurant or at somebody else's home
eat out.
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s. s. van dine
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noun United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
Wright; Willard Huntington Wright.
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To dine with Duke Humphrey
- to go without dinner; a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.
Webster 1913
wine and dine
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verb eat sumptuously
- we wined and dined in Paris
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verb provide with food and drink, usually lavishly
