go out for (something)
go out for (something)
1. To try to become a participant in something; to try out for something. I hear Tim's going out for the football team this year!
2. To go some place to eat a particular kind of food. I don't feel like cooking, let's go out for Chinese tonight instead.
See also: go, out
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
go out for someone or something
to leave in order to bring back someone or something. Albert just went out for a newspaper. Fran went out for Bob, who was on the back porch, smoking a cigarette.
See also: go, out
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
go out for
Seek to become a participant in, as in I'm going out for soccer. [First half of 1900s] Also see go for, def. 3; go in for, def. 2.
See also: go, out
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
- a whack at (something)
- (have) got something going (with someone)
- a/the feel of (something)
- (I) wouldn't (do something) if I were you
- a straw will show which way the wind blows
- a crack at (someone or something)
- all right
- (you) wanna make something of it?
- all for the best
- a thing of the past