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ask back

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ask someone back 
1. [for a host or hostess] to invite someone to come again (at a later time or to another similar event). After the way you behaved, they'll never ask us back. They had been asked back a number of times, but they never came.
2. [for someone who has been a guest] to invite a previous host or hostess to come to an event. We've had the Smiths to dinner five times. I think it's time they asked us back. I don't care if they ask us back or not.
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WHEN you're a reporter asking Iowans about ethanol, they tend to ask back, "First of all, where are you from?
DALLAS - As the Dodgers' managerial search officially entered its 10th week, there still were no indications as to which of the five candidates general manager Ned Colletti will ask back for second interviews.
Those of us who went to school at Lisnasharragh would always ask others who their most famous ex-pupil was - so they would ask back -and we revelled in the tales.
 
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