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Discover LudwigThe phrase "Settle the bill" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to the act of paying for goods or services received, typically in a restaurant or hotel setting. Example: "After finishing our meal, we asked the waiter to bring us the check so we could settle the bill."
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I said I'd go settle the bill.
Of course we'd settle the bill later".
We finish off the champagne and settle the bill.
Respect has to be earned, and you never settle the bill.
It's not unusual to offer your card only to be greeted with a request to settle the bill in cash".
Has anyone ever actually managed to settle the bill in a restaurant by doing the washing up in lieu of payment?
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Historians reckon that as early as the third century BC, Yunnan was part of a South-East Asian trade network that exchanged all manner of goods and used a common shell-based currency to settle the bills.
I'd get a call saying, "Can you fly to Australia tomorrow for six weeks?" I'd pack in a hurry, settle the bills and then remember to tell my husband; now I get separation anxiety after a day.
He settled the bill with the owner.
Settling the bill may mean capital ratios have to be strengthened, but so what?
James settles the bill, and they return to the clinic to collect the results of the tests.
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