Phrasal Verb Magic 4 - How to Learn Phrasal Verbs like Native English Speakers

hello again it's drew badger here and

we're going to review a bunch more

phrasal verbs i was asked this is

another requested video we're talking

about clothing and fabric so i wanted to

talk a little bit about these things and

again show you them visually always

always always you want to be learning

phrasal verbs visually not having me

stand in front of a white board and

write down a list of things for you to

remember lists a really horrible way to

learn stories and actually seeing things

visually or the way to actually remember

things and to communicate things much

more easily so people understand them

anyway let's begin

so I've got just a regular t-shirt I've

got some jeans on which you can't see

yet i'll show you those a little bit

later but we can begin with just looking

at the fabric again always i really want

to make this clear without even learning

anything just take the basic information

that you know the basic words and

phrases especially just basic verbs and

see if you can think about what maybe

you could use in a particular situation

so as an example I've got some fabric

right here I've got maybe my this is

just the short sleeve of my t-shirt and

if I if I start moving it up you can see

that the sleeves starts to kind of its

kind of bunching up a little bit so this

is our first phrasal verb for today to

bunch up it just means when you have

something maybe a line of things and

then they start kind of coming together

like this when you push them some

punching them up so my sleeve like this

it's straight but if i start moving it

up

I'm bunching it up punching it up so I'm

bunching up the fabric also the second

phrasal verb is when you see the fabric

come up like this you can often hear

people talking about rolling up their

sleeves so maybe when you when you push

up and again this is another phrasal

verb it's again how I'm how i'm doing

the action by talking about my hand

moving up in my pushing my sleeve up or

am I talking about the sleeve itself

kind of rolling over

so again it's it's a little bit hard to

see but when you got your sleeve rolling

up like this especially when you have

longer sleeves you talk about rolling up

your sleeves so i can push up my sleeves

I can roll up my sleeves and this is the

physical idea of just moving your sleeve

up you can see my my powerful muscles

over here so I'm moving my sleeves up

and again when maybe people are at an

office they begin with a longer shirt

maybe a dress shirt with a tie and then

they have long sleeves they can actually

unbutton the cuff and then they can roll

the sleeves up people often talk about

even if they're not wearing a long

sleeve shirt they will say well it's

time to roll up our sleeves and get to

work because people typically they roll

up their sleeves when they're about to

do some may be stressful or physical

work and even if you're just an office

and you're not actually doing something

physical you could be typing a report or

something but you're still saying i need

to roll up my sleeves i need to roll up

my sleeves

now let's talk about another thing it

has to do with my pants I'll move the

camera down for that

alright so now you're looking at my

midsection over here got my stomach and

my pants I'm wearing a belt to but right

now my shirt is hanging out

typically with the t-shirt this is

another phrasal verb to hang out we

covered hang in a previous video again

something that's the shirt is just

hanging from the rest of the shirt so my

t-shirt is outside of my pants hanging

out it's hanging out or on the outside

of my pants

typically you don't tuck in a t-shirt

you can do that but this is again I'm

trying to show you the next phrasal verb

to tuck something in now if I'm going to

tuck in my shirt I could take this and

I'm putting it into my pants like that

to tuck something in to tuck in and I

don't want to tuck the whole thing in

but this is what it looks like so I've

got a belt and I've got my pants and I'm

tucking my shirt in to my pants sucking

my shirt into my pants or I could

typically do this with a dress shirt

right now what do you think I'm doing

I'm untucking untucking my shirt i'm

pulling my shirt out of my pants pulling

my shirt out of my pants now again

typically you would do this more with a

dress shirt then you would do it with a

t-shirt like this but it's the same

thing you can also do this on the side

of a bed so if you make a bed and you

have the the outside maybe the covers

are going over the bed like this and

then you kind of put

them under the bed so maybe between the

the mattress and the bed i kinda look

like a mattress i guess but you would

put them maybe the covers are kind of

hanging off the bed but you would tuck

them under the bed like that so between

the mattress and the bed itself to tuck

in the covers so that way the covers are

not just hanging down again that's

another great phrasal verb to hang down

you were talking them in to tuck them in

and a few final phrasal verbs the first

one is to zip up so if i have a zipper

and zip zip something up if I have an

actual zipper on it like I do on this on

this vest so I'm going to zip up my best

i can also zip down so this is again to

zip up and zip down you can also say zip

or unzip but often the phrasal verbs zip

up your jacket or zip down the zip up

your jacket or unzip these are typically

what people use now if i have something

like a nicer shirt that I need to iron I

want to iron out the wrinkles to iron

out the wrinkles so I'll take off this

jacket now I probably wouldn't iron a

t-shirt but if this were a nice dress

shirt and I had some wrinkles in it may

be something the fabric is bunched up or

it's a little bit maybe just wrinkled I

want to iron the shirt i'm ironing out

this is another phrasal verb that you

might not know to iron out something

where I'm just taking an iron and it

sounds a bit more conversational so to

iron out the wrinkles now we take from

this physical idea of ironing out the

wrinkles we get the more literal artist

not literal but the figurative way of

looking at this which is to iron

something non-physical out so let's say

I have a problem at work problem is like

having a wrinkle it's something that you

don't like you don't want it there so

you want to iron it out so at work maybe

I need to iron out a problem with my

boss so we're figuring out some problem

with the system at work i need to iron

out some system problems with my

computer so i need to iron something out

the last thing is just to loosen up to

loosen up your shirt

maybe my shirt is too tight i need to

buy a different one or I'm getting it

tailored so I need the shirt maybe like

lengthened or shortened something I need

to just kind of loosen it up

little bit of loosening up my shirt or I

need to physically loosen up like this

before every video i like to do some

exercise I get excited get prepared for

the videos right now I'm getting loose i

am loosening up loosening up

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