He asked her out to dinner, but she had other plans.
•She couldn't go, so he asked out someone else.
•Liz asked Carl out for dinner.
2. to invite someone for a visit to a place in the country or some other location remote from the center of things. •Tom must be tired of the city. Let's ask him out to our place.
•I don't want to ask out everyone in the whole family again.
•Oh, let's ask him out anyway.