1. phrasal verb. If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it. Since she’d offered to babysit, I took her up on it. [
How do you say I’ll take you up on your offer?
“To take someone up on something” means to accept an offer from them. So, “Can I take you up on your offer of a meal?” is a polite way of saying “I have thought about accepting the meal that you offered, and I would like to accept that meal.”
How do you take someone up on an offer?
To “take someone up on” something means to accept what they’ve offered. For example, if someone invited you to have dinner together, and you agreed, you can describe it this way: I took him up on his offer to take me out to dinner.
What does taking you up mean?
to accept an offer or invitation from someone: I think I’ll take him up on his offer of a free ticket.
How do you use take up in a sentence?
Take up sentence example
He can’t wait to take up the sport. Maybe you should take up a hobby! No. Now don’t take up with some smooth talking country boy just because you’re lonely. Thankfully, Janet arrived to take up the inside tasks of Bird Song.
What does I’ll take you on mean?
to fight or compete against someone or something: I’ll take you on in a game of chess.
Can I take up on your offer?
If you take someone up on their offer or invitation, you accept it. If you take a person up on something, you ask them to explain something that they have just said or done, for example because you think it is wrong or strange.
How do you say take you up?
take (someone) up on (a bet/an offer)
For example, if someone invited you to have dinner together, and you agreed, you can describe it this way: I took him up on his offer to take me out to dinner.
What does it mean to take up for someone?
To show one’s support for someone or something; to provide help or assistance to someone or something. A man on the bus took up for the driver when a woman began screaming at him for being behind schedule.
Has been taken up meaning?
Definitions of taken up. adjective. having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something. “he was taken up in worry for the old woman” synonyms: haunted, obsessed, preoccupied concerned.
What does take your word for it mean?
Definition of take someone’s word for it
: to believe that what someone says is true.
What does hold you to it mean?
hold to (something)
To expect or encourage one to uphold something. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between “hold” and “to.” You said you’d be home by 10, and I’m holding you to your word. A: “Next time, I’ll buy you lunch.” B: “I’m going to hold you to that!”
When people say might?
Definition of might
(Entry 1 of 2) past tense of may. 1 —used to express permission, liberty, probability, or possibility in the past The president might do nothing without the board’s consent. 2 —used to say that something is possible We might get there before it rains. I might go, but then again, I might not.
What is the meaning of take up in phrasal verb?
1. phrasal verb. If you take up an activity or a subject, you become interested in it and spend time doing it, either as a hobby or as a career.
