- appeal to someone
- appeal to someoneto please or attract someone. •
Fast food doesn't appeal to me.
•The idea of a vacation to Florida this winter appeals to me a lot.
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
appeal to someone
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appeal — ap|peal1 [ ə pil ] verb *** 1. ) intransitive to make an urgent request for people to give you something that you need such as help, money, or information: appeal (to someone) for something: They re appealing to local businesses for sponsorship… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
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appeal — 1 noun 1 (C) an urgent request for something important such as money or help, especially to help someone in a bad situation (+ for): The United Nations appeal for a ceasefire has been largely ignored by both sides. | appeal to sb to do sth: an… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
appeal — ap|peal1 W1S2 [əˈpi:l] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(request)¦ 2¦(request for money)¦ 3¦(request to change decision)¦ 4¦(being attractive)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(REQUEST)¦ an urgent request for something important appeal for ▪ The police have issued a new ap … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Appeal to authority — An appeal to authority or argument by authority is a type of argument in logic called a fallacy. It bases the truth value of an assertion on the authority, knowledge, expertise, or position of the person asserting it. It is also known as argument … Wikipedia
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appeal — 1. verb 1) police are appealing for information Syn: ask urgently/earnestly, make an urgent/earnest request, call, make a plea, plead 2) Stuart appealed to me to help them Syn: implore, beg, entreat, call on, plead with … Thesaurus of popular words
Appeal to novelty — The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem ) is a fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new… … Wikipedia
