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Perfect Stranger Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

Shell out

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In a movie I've seen recently, I've come across a phrase to shell out. I'm wondering if its meaning is similar to to splash money on sth and if so, can I say I don't want to shell out too much money tonight, so let's just go to an inexpensive diner.


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Perfect Stranger In a movie I've seen recently, I 've ca me across the phra sal verb to shell out . I'm wondering if its meaning is similar to to splash money on sth Yes, it is. Perfect Stranger and if so, can I say I don't want to shell out too much money tonight, so let's just go to an inexpensive diner.

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  • Perfect Stranger In a movie I've seen recently, I 've ca me across the phra sal verb to shell out .
  • I'm wondering if its meaning is similar to to splash money on sth Yes, it is.
  • Perfect Stranger and if so, can I say I don't want to shell out too much money tonight, so let's just go to an inexpensive diner.
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Perfect StrangerIn a movie I've seen recently, I 've came across the phrasal verb to shell out. I'm wondering if its meaning is similar to to splash money on sth
Yes, it is.
Perfect Strangerand if so, can I say I don't want to shell out too much money tonight, so let's just go
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Perfect StrangerI don't want to shell out too much money
~ I don't want to spend too much money

CJ
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Peas grow inside a shell. The shell is not very good to eat, so to prepare peas for cooking, we have to shell them..

You open the shell with a fingernail, and push the peas out into a bowl.

Imagine your wallet is a shell. If we shell out money, that means that your money gets pushed out of your wallet, not carefully removed and counted!
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So that's it. I had no idea it was an agricultural idiom!

CJ
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