Sentence examples for pick up his tab from inspiring English sources

"It is beyond outrageous that, after refusing to cooperate with the city and investigators, Mr. Gansas now wants the taxpayers to pick up his tab," he said.

The hope is for Mr. Herwerth not only to prevail in his lawsuit, filed Nov. 27 and awaiting a court date in federal District Court in Central Islip, but also for the Department of Motor Vehicles to pick up his tab.

Strangers picked up his tab.

Strangers and friends crowd around his table, offering high-fives or picking up his tab.

Howard Feingold, the president of Best Apartments, which caters to the budget-conscious under-30 crowd, said landlords were no longer picking up his tab and that, unfortunately, "Clients have gotten used to not paying fees".

And Mr. Miller had an explanation for Mr. Cooper's recent 40-pound weight loss that had nothing to do with trendy diets: "GQ stopped picking up his tab at the Four Seasons".

He claims that NStar may help ease the tab next Christmas, but an NStar person says no, the much-reviled utility won't be picking up his tab.

Strangers picked up his tab at restaurants and approached him at gas stations and Wal-Mart to pose for photos and talk about guns.

Like Mack Sennett at Biograph, Durand supplied the spectacles of mass destruction that were a programming staple of every nickelodeon — frantic comedies, like the 1912 "Onésime Goes to Hell," in which the title character (played by Ernest Bourbon, a rubber-faced comic who appeared in some 60 short films for Durand), gives his soul to the Devil in return for picking up his bar tab.

Mr. Virovatz said he often wound up picking up his young friend's tab.

He laughs incessantly, picks up his fair share of tabs for friends and strangers alike, and hands out a business card listing his occupation as Professional Italian, a nod to his heritage and the name he changed long ago for business purposes.