how about...?
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A2 informal used to make a suggestion: How about the cinema tonight? How about going to the cinema?Suggestions and proposals › used when asking someone about a different thing: You don't eat meat, do you? How about fish?Question words and expressions
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Synonyms and related words:
- bounce sth off sb phrasal verb
- drop verb (FALL)
- float verb (SUGGEST)
- get at sth phrasal verb (SUGGEST)
- hint noun (INDIRECT STATEMENT)
- hint verb
- how does... grab you? idiom
- how/what about...? idiom
- if you take my meaning idiom
- indication noun (SUGGESTION)
- intimate verb
- maybe adverb
- moot verb
- move verb (SUGGEST)
- point sb towards/in the direction of sth idiom
- postulate noun
- propound verb
- put ideas into sb's head idiom
- put sth/sb forward phrasal verb
- suggest verb (PRODUCE AN IDEA)
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