Improve your VOCABULARY with THESE PHRASES

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In this video I’m going to help you enrich

your speech by giving you alternatives to the word “Stop”.

Now, I’m going to make a disclaimer

right away I’m not saying that using the word

“stop” is bad or forbidden in any way.

You can definitely use it and should use it

especially if you forget those other expressions.

We need speaking practice so it’s better

to say something than nothing at all. But they will

help you sound more natural and add to your vocabulary.

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today’s topic in the meanwhile. Ok the

first one will be the idiom “cut it out”

which means to stop doing something and it is

used when asking someone to stop doing something

especially if it’s annoying you or you don’t like it.

So for example, my son likes to bang his

toys on something quite loudly, tediously

and he can go on with this for quite some time.

So after a while, I do tell him

or when someone’s arguing you can say

or when someone’s purposely bothering,

disturbing or teasing you, you can ask them to cut it out.

Hey, hey

Hey come on, cut it out!

Then we have “Knock it off”

basically it has an identical meaning to “cut it out”, but a little stronger.

They can interchangeable. Again if someone

is doing something that annoys you, you can say

Another synonymous phrase to

those two is “Quit it” again

used when asking someone to stop doing something.

you can say this to someone who’s annoying you with their made up stories.

when talking about smoking for example.

“Give it a rest” is used when asking someone to stop talking

or to stop talking about a specific topic

again when it’s annoying you, or again

when asking someone to stop doing something.

You see how many phrases we already have.

So when you're trying to work

and someone else just won’t stop talking

you can say

The next one is “Take a break”

is used when telling someone to stop doing

something or to stop working in order to get

some rest or focus their energy elsewhere.

You can say

because you need some rest.

“Can we take a break cuz I really have to go”

“Catch one’s breath”

so when you or someone else says that they

need to catch their breath it means that they need to

stop doing some activity to restore normal

breathing like running, exercising, building

or that they got tired. So

let’s say you’re in the middle of some energetic activity

and you get tired and want to stop

for a moment. Instead of saying “Let’s stop.

I’m tired” You can say

Now a phrase with the opposite meaning “Get down to work”

And there's another one “Let's get down to business” they are similar.

If you say “Let’s get down to work”

it means let’s start working after a break or rest or doing nothing.

In other words “Let’s stop resting and start working”.

This phrase applies both

to your actual job or to any other activity you need to work on.

“Let’s get down to business”

means the same “let’s start working”

or “let’s start our discussion about some particular matter”

Meaning that when a little introduction is over we’ll start working and practicing.

“Call it a day” it means to stop working or doing

something else either because you’re tired

or because you don’t want to do it anymore right now.

You can use this phrase at work or when you’re working

on whatever – some project. Usually you would

tell someone you’re working with

kind of like to get their agreement about quitting for today.

Or you can say to someone something like

“Call it quits” is used in the same way as the previous one

plus it also means to stop doing or

end something permanently. It can be your job

or relationship. Or when a debt is paid

off people can acknowledge this and say

Meaning we don’t owe each other anything anymore.

“Get out of someone’s hair” means to stop getting in someone’s way, interfering

with what they’re doing or to stop annoying them.

It’s a very common one. Let’s say you’ve been asking

your coworker the whole day to sign some documents

and they either didn’t have time or kept forgetting.

You can eventually say

“Get off someone’s back” is used to

ask someone to stop criticizing, nagging or

harassing them and to leave them alone. So let’s

say you tidied up the whole apartment and your significant

other comes home not in the mood and starts

criticizing your work, saying that you

missed this spot and that. You can say

The meaning of this next phrase is very similar to the previous one.

“Call off the dogs” means to stop

criticizing and attacking someone else. But

especially when the attack was used as a

punishment for someone who has done something wrong.

“Hold it right there/Hold it” is used to tell someone to stop,

not to move. Police officers use it a lot.

I say this to my kid on a regular basis

And finally to wrap it up the word “cease”

which means to stop, put to an end or come to an end,

can be used and is used as a synonym for the word “stop.”

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That’s it from me for this video.

Hopefully you learned something new. And I really want to encourage

you to use these phrases. Thank you for your

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