engage to

engage (someone) to (someone)

To betroth oneself or someone to someone else; to enter two people into an engagement to be married. I refuse to let my family engage me to a man I've never met before.

engage someone to someone

to betroth someone to someone. Her parents engaged her to the man she ended up marrying. She engaged herself to some guy she met at a singles bar.

词组	engage to
释义	engage to engage (someone) to (someone) To betroth oneself or someone to someone else; to enter two people into an engagement to be married. I refuse to let my family engage me to a man I've never met before. See also: engage Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. engage someone to someone to betroth someone to someone. Her parents engaged her to the man she ended up marrying. She engaged herself to some guy she met at a singles bar. See also: engage McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: a stranger to (someone or something) accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league be in bad with (someone) (one) puts (one's) pants on one leg at a time bargain bargain for (someone or something) with (someone) brief (someone) about (someone or something)
随便看	not to be sneezed at not to be sneezed/sniffed at not to be sniffed at not to mention not to mention something not tonight, Josephine not too bad not too hot not too shabby not to put too fine a point on it not to say not to speak of not to touch a drop not touch a drop not touch a hair on (one's) head not touch somebody/something with a bargepole not touch (someone or something) with a barge pole not touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole not touch with a ten-foot pole not to worry not trouble head about not trouble (one's) head about (someone or something) not trust (one) an inch not trust somebody an inch not trust someone as far as one can throw him/her