Talk:see out

Did you mean to put those translations at celery? DTLHS (talk) 23:19, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Seeing the gas put out?
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) has "see it out, to stay out late or early, and see the gas put out. Also to complete an undertaking." Could well be a folk etymology. Equinox ◑ 12:46, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

RFV discussion: May–September 2023
To outlive. Equinox ◑ 17:25, 15 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I've seen this used with reference to someone (e.g. a parent or enemy) or something (like savings) "seeing", i.e. lasting until and past, someone's death—Citations:see out—but I'm not sure to what extent that's a separate sense as opposed to sense 2. Cites like this and others at are also about death and technically do involve outliving someone, but IMO they're better handled by something like an "also figurative" label on sense 1. - -sche (discuss) 18:22, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'd like to see separate metaphorical senses like this out of Wiktionary. Maybe the OED could convince me otherwise. DCDuring (talk) 00:48, 16 May 2023 (UTC)


 * I've added examples of the ?figurative? use under senses 1 and 2. I suppose sense 3 can be deleted in favour of handling this as figurative use of 1 and 2? - -sche (discuss) 15:34, 27 June 2023 (UTC)


 * Sense 3 removed in favour of being handled as figurative or specialized use of senses 1 or 2. - -sche (discuss) 21:27, 15 September 2023 (UTC)