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• feel out — feel (someone) out to try to find out someone s opinions or thoughts without being obvious. Why don t you feel them out to see if they ll invite me too? I need time to feel out the boss before asking for more money …   New idioms dictionary

• feel out — index peruse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• feel out — verb try to learn someone s opinions and intentions I have to sound out the new professor • Syn: ↑check out, ↑sound out • Hypernyms: ↑question, ↑query • Verb Frames …   Useful english dictionary

• feel out — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms feel out : present tense I/you/we/they feel out he/she/it feels out present participle feeling out past tense felt out past participle felt out informal to try to discover in a careful or indirect way what a… …   English dictionary

• feel out — verb to cautiously try to ascertain a persons point of view or the nature of a situation by subtle means I think we should feel out your moms thoughts about this before we decide anything. Syn: sound out, check out …   Wiktionary

• feel out — talk or act carefully with someone and find out what he thinks I will try and feel out my boss this weekend and see what he thinks of my chance of promotion …   Idioms and examples

• feel out — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To test the attitude of: probe, sound3 (out). Idioms: put out feelers, send up a trial balloon. See INVESTIGATE. II verb See feel …   English dictionary for students

• feel out — {v.} To talk or act carefully with someone and find what he thinks or can do. * /The pupils felt out the principal about a party after the game./ * /John felt out his father about letting him have the car that evening./ * /At first the boxers… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• feel out — {v.} To talk or act carefully with someone and find what he thinks or can do. * /The pupils felt out the principal about a party after the game./ * /John felt out his father about letting him have the car that evening./ * /At first the boxers… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• feel\ out — v To talk or act carefully with someone and find what he thinks or can do. The pupils felt out the principal about a party after the game. John felt out his father about letting him have the car that evening. At first the boxers felt each other… …   Словарь американских идиом

• feel out of place — {v. phr.} To experience the sensation of not belonging in a certain place or company. * /Dave felt out of place among all those chess players as he knows nothing about chess./ …   Dictionary of American idioms