Shopping Idioms

Here you will find vocabulary that is useful when talking about shopping.

You can practice all of these idioms in: Chapter 2 – The Shopping List – $2.00

• browse
  

  to look around but not buy anything

• head somewhere
  

  go somewhere

• loot
  

  a collection of valuable items

• ring up
  

  to enter the amount of a sale on a cash register

• rip-off
  

  a product or service that is too expensive

• shoplift
  

  to steal things from a store

• slash prices
  

  to greatly reduce prices

• sweeten the deal
  

  to add something to an offer to make it sound more attractive

• swipe
  

  to steal, to take something without asking

• tag
  

  the price of an item on a piece of paper

• take it or leave it
  

  to either accept or reject something

• throw something in
  

  to add another product for free

• till
  

  the place where you buy something at a store

• window-shop
  

  to look at things through a store window without buying them

Practice these expressions and more with the idioMeanings eBook!