Phrasal Verbs with CARRY: "carry out", "carry away", "carry on"...

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Today's lesson is about phrasal verbs, using

the verb "carry". And again, phrasal... Phrasal verbs are verbs plus a preposition that, together,

means something else than the two words themselves. Now, I know you've seen many of these phrasal

verb lessons. Don't worry, I think we're almost done, because I've gone through most of them.

"Carry", usually you carry... You carry a basket, you carry a child, you move something

in your arms. You carry it. Right?

So, most of those have to do with that idea of carrying something.

The most common of these is "carry on". Okay? What does it mean to "carry on"? A few meanings.

One is to continue. So, my staff is having a meeting,

and I say: "Oh, sorry to interrupt everyone, but I need to make an announcement."

I make an announcement. "Everybody understands. Yes? Okay, carry on, continue."

Okay? It could also mean to continue something that's been

going on for a long time. So, for example, Jimmy wants to carry on his father's tradition

of having a barbeque every Sunday with the whole family, so to keep something going,

like a tradition, a custom, etc.

"Carry on with" is a little bit different. Actually, it's quite different.

When you "carry on with someone", it usually mean you were flirting. Now, I'm not sure if you know this

word, "to flirt". "To flirt" means to, like, have some fun with somebody of the opposite

sex, or it could mean to have an actual affair, to have an affair with someone, to carry on

with someone. Now, there's quite a few differences between British English and American English.

In British English, "carry on" can also mean to talk, and talk, and talk, and talk, usually

complaining about something. "Oh, stop carrying on about that. We don't care anymore." In

American English, it would just be go on. "Stop. Oh, you're going on and on about this.

Just forget it. Let it go. Move on. Continue." Okay? So, British/American, slightly different.

"Carry over". "Carry over", it could mean carry something from here over to here, physically,

but it could also mean to move something to another time, another place. For example,

the meeting we had, we had too many things to speak about, we didn't finish everything

on time, so we will carry it over to tomorrow. Tomorrow we will start again, and finish what

we need to do. So, "carry over", move to a different time, place, position.

"Carry back". Sometimes, you know, I'm driving in my car and I turn on the radio, and I hear

this song, and it just carries me back to when I was a teenager in high school, and

when I was just having fun. So, "carry back" means sort of like remind, but more in terms

of nostalgia.

Nostalgia. It just takes you back, carries you back to another time and

place, a different mindset, etc.

"Carry around". So, I can... If I have a baby, I could put on my little pouch thing on my

back, put my baby on the back, and carry it around as I go for a little walk. So, you

can, again, physically carry something around, but you can also carry around baggage, emotional

baggage. So, for example, if you feel very, very guilty about something you did or something

that happened, you can carry that guilt around with you for your whole life. It's like a

weight on your shoulders, and you're carrying it around, even though it's just inside your

head. Okay? So, that person is carrying around too much baggage, emotional baggage.

"Carry off" means to complete something successfully. So, I had a big presentation at work, and

after... After the presentation, my boss comes up to me, he goes: "You carried that off great.

Good job." Right? I did it, I finished it, successful, everybody was happy. "Carry off"

also means to take away. Okay? I picked her up and carried her off into the sunset, my

darling, whoever she might be.

"Out", "carry out" basically means to do, or more correctly is to perform. You carry

out a task. Okay? You do something. If the boss asks you to do something and he wants

you to carry... Carry it out as soon as possible. Okay? In British English, "carry out" is the

same as American "take out". So you go to a restaurant, you order your food,

and carry out; to go.

"Carry forward" is similar to "carry over", except we're not moving a meeting or something

like that to another time and place; we're taking something to a future time, and we're

using it in a different scenario. So, for example, if you're doing your taxes at the

end of the year, and certain parts of your tax return you don't want to include in this

year's accounts, so you carry it forward; you move it to the following year. Okay? And

you do it in the next tax year. So, you can carry the numbers... Usually, when we talk

about calculations, we could use this expression. Move it to another time in the future, and

use it in that context.

Now, here, we have "carried away". Now, I put it separately because you'll notice that

"carried away", it's actually not a verb, here. We're using this more like an adjective

with a preposition. It's still technically a verb. "He was carried away." It's more like

a passive, but again, we're using it like an adjective. So, "to be carried away" means

to lose self-control or even to exaggerate. So, I was telling my friends about my trip

to the islands. I went to islands, I did a little swimming, a little sun tanning, and

I start telling the story, and I get all excited. Sorry. And I tell them all this story, and

I'm going on and on about this and that, and... You see how fast I'm talking now? Because

I'm so excited, I don't know what to do. I'm getting carried away. I'm letting my emotions

control my speech, so I lose control of my emotions, I get too excited, and I speak too

fast, speak too much, people get a little bit annoyed. If you get carried away, you're

exaggerating. It means you're making something small, you're actually making it very big,

more than it ought to be.

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