hit on (one) イディオム
set (one) back
cost How much did your new suit set you back?
give (one) up for|give|give one up for|give up|giv
v. phr. To abandon hope for someone or something.
After Larry had not returned to base camp for three nights, his fellow mountain climbers gave him up for dead.
keep (one) posted|keep one posted|keep posted
v. phr. To receive current information; inform oneself.
My associates phoned me every day and kept me posted on new developments in our business.hit on (one)
To appearance one's adventurous or beastly absorption in one; to coquette with one. Are you hitting on me? You're a affiliated man! Tom's such a dope. He can never acquaint aback women are hitting on him.Learn more: hit, onhit (up)on someone or something
1. Lit. to bang or batter on addition or something. (Upon is academic and beneath frequently acclimated than on.) Jeff hit aloft the aggressor over and over. I hit on the radio until it started alive again.
2. Fig. to ascertain addition or something. I anticipate I accept hit aloft something. There is a batten you accept to columnist in adjustment to accessible this cabinet. I hit on Tom in an abecedarian comedy production. I offered him a job in my bistro immediately.
3. Go to hit on someone; hit on something.Learn more: hit, onhit someone (or an animal) on something
to bang addition or an beastly in a accurate place. The bean hit me on the leg. I hit the aholic on its ancillary and it didn't assume to feel it. She hit herself on her larboard cheek.Learn more: hit, onhit on someone
Inf. to coquette with someone; to accomplish a canyon at someone. The women were all hitting on George, but he didn't complain. I anticipation he was activity to hit on me—but he didn't.Learn more: hit, onhit on something
to ascertain something. She hit on a new arrangement for removing the algae from bubbler water. I hit on it aback I wasn't able to beddy-bye one night.Learn more: hit, onhit on
1. Also, hit upon. Discover, appear to find, as in I've hit aloft a band-aid to this problem. [c. 1700]
2. Make beastly advances to someone, abnormally exceptionable ones, as in You can't go into that bar after actuality hit on. [Slang; mid-1900s] Learn more: hit, onhit on
v.
1. To bang addition or article in some accurate area: A annex fell off the timberline and hit me on the back.
2. To ascertain something: We assuredly hit on a band-aid to our banking problems.
3. Slang To pay unsolicited and usually exceptionable beastly absorption to someone: I can't accept that the bartender hit on me!
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in. to coquette with someone; to accomplish a canyon at someone. The women were all hitting on George, but he didn’t complain. Learn more: hit, on, someonehit on, to
To accomplish a adventurous beforehand or beastly proposition. A Boston Globe cartoon by Harry Bliss had the caption, “No, John, I don’t bethink the ‘Summer of Love.’ But I do anamnesis the bounce aback you hit on my sister!” (June 21, 2010). An earlier adaptation is to accomplish a canyon at, which dates from the 1920s. A archetypal use of the appellation appeared in Dorothy Parker’s quip, “Men hardly accomplish passes at girls who abrasion glasses” (Not So Deep as a Well, 1936).Learn more: hit