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The words Check, Bill and Tab

When you go to a restaurant in the US and you are finished eating the waiter or waitress will bring you a check which, of course, is what you have to pay; a list of all the things you ate and this is called a check and can also be called a bill, however, it’s one of the custom that people are often surprised when they come to the US because in most restaurants when you are done eating the waiter will bring you your bill or check and put it on your table. This is considered rude in many countries but in US it doesn’t mean you have to leave right away or that you have to pay right now; that’s just a custom, that’s just the way the things are done in restaurants. They bring you the bill when they see you’re finished eating and you’re not going to order any more food but you don’t have to pay right away. The waiter should say something like: "whenever you are ready".

There are some other words we use for check and bill in a restaurant. One of them is specially used in a bar is called tab. Your tab is your bill, usually for alcohol and if you want to pay a drink for someone you may say to the bartender: a drink for her or him and put it on my tab. A tab is sometimes called a running tab. So these are some of the uses of the words check, bill, and tab.



The words Just and Only

Sometimes these two words can mean the same thing.
There’s only/just one person here.
I’m just/only kidding.(I’m not doing anything else)
We also use the word "just" in other way however. For example, you can say: "I’m just leaving", meaning I’m leaving right now or I can say: "I just arrived", meaning I arrived a minute ago or ten minutes ago.
You can’t say: "I’m only leaving or I’m only arrived".


To Make Up One’s Mind

To make up one’s mind means to decide. If I need to decide something I can say: I need to make my mind or I need to make a decision.
We usually use "to make up my mind" when we’re thinking a long time about something and we need to make a decision but we’ve been waiting, waiting and finally we decide what to do.


In the Eye of the Beholder

There’s a famous expression or saying in English: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". It means that beauty depends on who is looking at something; it depends upon the person who has that particular view, for example, I may see a woman and say she’s very beautiful, but someone else may look at the same woman and say I don’t think she’s very beautiful so, it depends upon the person, it depends on the eye of the beholder.