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help out
verb
- to assist or aid (someone), esp by sharing the burden
- to share the burden or cost of something with (another person)
Idioms and Phrases
Give additional assistance, as in I offered to help out with the holiday rush at the store . [Early 1600s]Example Sentences
“They need a few pieces and I feel like I’m one of those pieces that can help out.”
Fans began showing up days in advance, asking theater staff if they could help out with the event.
An instruction sheet for the game is placed on every table, and the founders walk around the room to help out and answer questions as well.
"Where we can help people out, we should help out," said Haroon Hassan, who was collecting bin bags from residents and carrying them to a mobile waste centre in Small Heath on Tuesday.
But when asked about how people will cope, ministers are inevitably pointing to this increase as evidence of how the government is helping out.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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