buy a round (of drinks)

buy a round (of drinks)
buy a round (of drinks) & buy the next round (of drinks)
to buy a drink for each person present, with the expectation that one or more of those persons will later do likewise. •

Which one of you guys is going to buy the next round?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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