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The phrase "How about dinner" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to ask someone if they would like to have dinner with you. For example, you could say, "Hey, I'm getting hungry. How about dinner?"
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How about dinner at the friend's apartment?
"How about dinner?" "When are you through here?" "At four".
IF MEMORY SERVES, sometime around March 1999 a caller to The Daily News introduced herself as Nora Ephron, and how about dinner?
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Researchers are discovering that the pancreas helps mediate much of the appetite-related cross talk between the brain and the gastrointestinal tract, the streams of chemical signals that say, I'm starving down here, how about some dinner, or, enough already, step away from that dessert cart and no one will be hurt.
* * * DANA: How about getting dinner, just you and me?
Instead, how about a dinner party for 8 or 10 at home, cooked by an accomplished (and maybe even famous) chef?
How about a candlelit dinner at (insert favorite splurgey restaurant) to commemorate who-knows-what?
After a series of no's, you say, "...then how about just a dinner and a movie?" They'll see you "backed down" (or so they think!) and be more likely to cave.
It's amazing how much cops talk about dinner.
Even off the grid, we greet each other with "how are you?" yet expect the conventional reply of "fine, how are you?" In the South, the conventional parting message of "come and see us sometime" is a pleasantry--it is not meant to be answered with "sure, how about next Thursday for dinner?" We've extended these pleasantries online.
How about the "Top 11 Dinners Mom or Dad Made" or the "Best Items In My Lunchbox"?
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