Relationships
cancel on someone
withdraw from plans unexpectedly
If someone cancels on you, they decide not to meet you or do what they had planned, often at short notice.
Hear it in real life
Are you still meeting Lan tonight?
No, she cancelled on me this morning.
He cancelled on me at the last minute, so I ate dinner by myself.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: She cancelled to me again.
Say: She cancelled on me again.
The person left waiting comes after “on”: “cancel on someone”.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
cancel on someone; cancelled on someone; keep cancelling on someone
Your turn: say it out loud
He cancelled on me at the last minute, so I ate dinner by myself.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
cancel on someone
withdraw from plans unexpectedly
“He cancelled on me at the last minute, so I ate dinner by myself.”
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