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stand treat en · VERB
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(archaic, idiomatic) To pay the cost of treating someone to something.
Is "standing treat" a sale of liquor? Certainly to the "treator," but is it a sale to the "treatee"?
1888, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes, volume 7, page 131:An ordinary Australian of the locality would have […] said Yes or No to the price asked, and, as a preliminary to doing business, would have stood the needy seller treat. Mark had to stand treat himself, and had to take Jock out to inspect the plant.
1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter V, in Capricornia, page 62:
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