what do you say (to doing something)

what do you say (to doing something)
ˌwhat do/would you ˈsay (to sth/doing sth) idiom
(informal) would you like sth/to do sth?

What do you say to eating out tonight?

Let's go away for a weekend. What do you say?

Main entry:sayidiom

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • what would you say (to doing something) — ˌwhat do/would you ˈsay (to sth/doing sth) idiom (informal) would you like sth/to do sth? • What do you say to eating out tonight? • Let s go away for a weekend. What do you say? Main entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • what do you say (to something something) — ˌwhat do/would you ˈsay (to sth/doing sth) idiom (informal) would you like sth/to do sth? • What do you say to eating out tonight? • Let s go away for a weekend. What do you say? Main entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • what would you say (to something something) — ˌwhat do/would you ˈsay (to sth/doing sth) idiom (informal) would you like sth/to do sth? • What do you say to eating out tonight? • Let s go away for a weekend. What do you say? Main entry: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • there's no law against doing something — there s no law against (something/doing something) informal something that you say in order to tell someone who is criticizing you that you are not doing anything wrong. You were in the pub at lunchtime, weren t you? Well, there s no law against… …   New idioms dictionary

  • (the) left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing — something that you say which means that communication in an organization is bad so that one part does not know what is happening in another part. I was sent the same letter from two different departments. I get the feeling the left hand doesn t… …   New idioms dictionary

  • at the risk of doing something — phrase used for saying that you realize something bad or unpleasant may happen as a result of what you are going to say At the risk of seeming boring, I don’t think we should try it. Thesaurus: involving a risk or riskssynonym Main entry: risk *… …   Useful english dictionary

  • say — 1 /seI/ verb past tense and past participle said /sed/ 3rd person singular says USE WORDS 1 WORD/SOUND (T) to pronounce a word or sound: “What did you say?” | “I m so tired” she said. | say hello/goodbye etc: She left without even saying goodbye …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • say — say1 W1S1 [seı] v past tense and past participle said [sed] third person singular says [sez] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(express something in words)¦ 2¦(give information)¦ 3¦(mean)¦ 4¦(think that something is true)¦ 5¦(show/be a sign of something)¦ 6¦(speak the… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • say — say1 [ seı ] (3rd person singular says [ sez ] ; past tense and past participle said [ sed ] ) verb *** ▸ 1 express something using words ▸ 2 have opinion ▸ 3 mean something ▸ 4 give information/orders ▸ 5 show what someone/something is like ▸ 6… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • say — I UK [seɪ] / US verb Word forms say : present tense I/you/we/they say he/she/it says UK [sez] / US present participle saying past tense said UK [sed] / US past participle said *** Get it right: say: Unlike the verb tell, the verb say is never… …   English dictionary

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