be on somebody

PAY 支付 spokenPAY FOR used to say who is going to pay for something 由某人付钱

The drinks are on me!

饮料我请客！

Each table will get a bottle of champagne on the house (=paid for by the restaurant, hotel etc).

每桌都将得到一瓶本店奉送的香槟。

Examples from the Corpus

on the house• A black flotilla of clouds rose towering over the mountains and advanced on the house.• First drink is on the house.• He had heavy commitments on the house.• It was Minton who secured the lease on the house and informed Vaughan of his share.• Y., during a break from buttonholing colleagues on the House floor.• I looked down on the houses lining the steep streets of Saltville.• Messages for the intelligent plug are carried by signals on the house wiring.

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