"pick up the tab" meaning in 英语

See pick up the tab in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Audio: En-au-pick up the tab.ogg Forms: picks up the tab [third-person, singular, present], picking up the tab [present, participle], picked up the tab [past, participle]
  1. 付钱,买单 Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: zh-pick_up_the_tab-en-verb-9KTr1O8i Categories (other): 有引文的英語詞, 美國英語, 英語不及物動詞, 英語俗語, 英語引文翻譯請求
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
{
  "categories": [
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有1個詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "有詞條的頁面",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語動詞",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "英語詞元",
      "parents": [],
      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "动词",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "有引文的英語詞",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "美國英語",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "英語不及物動詞",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "英語俗語",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "英語引文翻譯請求",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              84,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014年January30日,Seth Kugel,“Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "When the bill came to just 33,000 forints, I did something very out of character: I picked up the tab. It blew the budget for the day, but felt great."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              41
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020年March25日,Philip Haigh,“Analysis: Where the money comes from... and where it goes”, in Rail,頁 34:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, the taxpayer picked up the tab for over 50% of track and train costs at Northern, Merseyrail and the Transport for Wales rail operation."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "付钱,买单"
      ],
      "id": "zh-pick_up_the_tab-en-verb-9KTr1O8i",
      "raw_tags": [
        "主要用於美國"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pick up the tab.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/En-au-pick_up_the_tab.ogg/En-au-pick_up_the_tab.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-pick up the tab.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick up the tab"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "有1個詞條的頁面",
    "有詞條的頁面",
    "英語動詞",
    "英語詞元"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "picks up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "third-person",
        "singular",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picking up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "participle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "picked up the tab",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "participle"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "英语",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "pos_title": "动词",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "有引文的英語詞",
        "美國英語",
        "英語不及物動詞",
        "英語俗語",
        "英語引文翻譯請求"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              84,
              101
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2014年January30日,Seth Kugel,“Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:",
          "text": "When the bill came to just 33,000 forints, I did something very out of character: I picked up the tab. It blew the budget for the day, but felt great."
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              24,
              41
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2020年March25日,Philip Haigh,“Analysis: Where the money comes from... and where it goes”, in Rail,頁 34:",
          "text": "Meanwhile, the taxpayer picked up the tab for over 50% of track and train costs at Northern, Merseyrail and the Transport for Wales rail operation."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "付钱,买单"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "主要用於美國"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-pick up the tab.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/42/En-au-pick_up_the_tab.ogg/En-au-pick_up_the_tab.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/En-au-pick up the tab.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pick up the tab"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pick up the tab meaning in 英语 (1.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable 英语 dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-20 from the zhwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-01 using wiktextract (e683717 and 51e6a0c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.