| 词汇 | shell-out |
| 释义 | shell (something) outphrasal verb with shellverb[ T ]uk /ʃel/ us /ʃel/ informal to pay or give money for something, usually unwillingly: （通常指不情愿地）支付，拿出（钱） shell (something) out for somethingHaving shelled out €150 for the tickets, I wasn't going to miss the show.我忍痛花了150欧元买票，说什么也不会错过演出的。 to spend money spendHow much do you intend to spend on a house? payWhen you bought the tickets, how much did you pay? investShe's invested all her savings in the business. pay outI've just paid out £700 to get the car fixed. splurgeWe've just splurged on new kitchen appliances. blowWe won a £15 million settlement in court and we blew it all in six years. Paying money 2FA 2SV ante up (something) burn a hole in someone's pocketidiom buying power cost-cutting fund non-contributory overpaid put someone through something put something on your/someone's card put something towards something reimburse run to something self-finance spend spent splurge sponsor tipper shell out something | American Dictionaryshell out somethingphrasal verb with shellverb[ T ]us/ʃel/ infml to pay money: I hope we don’t have to shell out a lot of money for tickets. shell out | Business Englishshell outphrasal verb with shellverbuk /ʃel/us informal to pay money for something, especially when the cost is unexpected and not wanted: If we lose the case, we'll be forced to shell out. shell out sthCourts have ordered tobacco companies to shell out millions of dollars in damages to smokers. shell out for sthThey were worried about having to shell out for training additional staff. Examples of shell (something) outshell (something) out While waiting, the four siblings finally shellout their problems towards each other. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By contrast, in a large indoor shopping mall a retailer would shellout $400,000 just to get started, and a whopping $490,000 if he chose to walk away. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. We cannot simply shellout money with no timetable. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We do not shellout money whenever somebody thinks that he should have aid. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But that was yesterday, when audiences would shellout cheerful and sit through anything because pictures moved. From Project Gutenberg His chief creditor threatened law proceedings against him if he didn't shellout slick. From Project Gutenberg But the landlord, a retired fruiterer, as big a scoundrel as they, wanted to make them shellout more. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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