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Giving, Accepting, and Refusing Invitations

Drop in: visit without notice, without making
arrangements
Dutch treat: sharing the cost of a meal; each person
paying for his or her own food; also known as going
Dutch
Engagement: appointment
Firm date: set dates or appointments
Get-together: casual social gathering
Headcount: a count of how many people will attend
Invitable: friendly, smiling, making small talk,
approachable
Let the cat out of the bag: to reveal a secret
Nice touch: a nice gesture, a nice thing to do
Offhand: casual, informal
On the company: the company pays for this, picks up the
expense
Potluck dinner: everyone invited brings something to eat
Rain check: the possibility to do something at another
time (From baseball, this means you may go back
another time for free if the game is rained out.)
Rites of passage: important life events, life changing
events, also called milestones
Spur of the moment: without planning ahead of time (“on
the” or “at the” spur of the moment)
Tied up: busy, occupied
To his or her taste: to his or her liking
Tux: short for tuxedo

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