When you finish your stay in a hotel, you have to check out at reception and pay your final bill.
· I need to check out of my hotel room by 11.
· You check us out whilst I order a taxi for the airport.
If you lock yourself out, you close a door without having the key to get back in.
· Richard managed to lock himself out of his hotel room stark naked.
· I've left the keys in the car and locked myself out.
If you pick something out, you choose it, often with some care.
· Harry has picked out all the cashew nuts and left only the peanuts for me.
· From the thirty candidates, we've picked out seven to interview.
If you reach out for something, you extend your arm to get it (sometimes metaphorically.)
· Drivers have to reach out a long way to insert the ticket in the machine.
· Our present customers are almost all over fifty. We need to reach out to a younger public.
If you rush out, you leave or send out very quickly.
· I wanted to speak to Jane but she rushed out as soon as the meeting was over.
· We rushed out the new catalogue and it is full of spelling errors.
If you throw something out, you get rid of it.
· We need to throw out the terrible printers we have and buy some new ones.
· You shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
If you warn somebody to look out, it means that there is danger.
· Look out! The boss is on the warpath.
· Look out! There's a radar camera just up ahead.
If you send something out you send it to a lot of people (for example, to a mailing list.)
· I'll be sending out the newsletter early next week.
· Have you sent out the invitations yet?
If someone or something stands out it is very noticeable or is better than similar people or things.
· One candidate stands out from the rest.
· He likes to stand out from the crowd.
If you pour out your (usually sad) feelings or your thoughts, you talk about them very honestly and without holding anything back.
· He poured his heart out to me about his recent divorce.
· Don't hold back. Let it all pour out. It will do you good.
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