order in
order in
To order food online or over the phone to be delivered to one's home or workplace. A noun or pronoun can be used between "order" and "in" to specify what is being ordered. I really don't feel like cooking tonight. Let's just order in instead. Everyone in the office is ordering in burritos—do you want one? They're ordering pizza in for the slumber party.
See also: order
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
order someone in (to something)
to command someone to get into something. The officer ordered Ann into the wagon. She didn't want to go, but the cop ordered her in.
See also: order
order something in
to have something, usually food, brought into one's house or place of business. Do you want to order pizza in? Shall I order in pizza?
See also: order
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- order from
- order from (someone or something)
- on the order of
- place an order
- place an/the/(one's) order
- Can I take your order?
- Could I take your order?
- May I take your order?
- in order
- speak from