12 Essential English Phrasal Verbs - Love & Relationships (+ Free PDF & Quiz)

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- Hello everyone, and welcome back to English with Lucy.
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It seems like quite a lot of you are interested in
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vocabulary regarding relationships,
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and you're also quite interested in phrasal verbs,
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so I just had this amazing idea.
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I thought, put the two together,
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relationships, phrasal verbs, because there are a lot.
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So I'm going to talk about 12 today.
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Some are more basic, some are more common, should I say,
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and some are more advanced.
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Then if you use these in exams like IELTS and
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the first in the advanced Cambridge exams,
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then you should get a good response
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because they're quite niche.
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Quickly, before we get started,
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Right, let's get on with the lesson.
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The first phrasal verb is to ask out.
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It's separable, so to ask somebody out,
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and this is to invite someone on a date.
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For example, he asked me out at a party,
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and we've been inseparable ever since.
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So the next one is to take somebody out.
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This is to take somebody on a date.
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So these first two are quite similar.
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On our first date, he took me out to a restaurant.
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Normally, the person who is taking the other person out
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is offering to pay for the date.
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Normally.
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I prefer to split the bill,
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and then there are no expectations.
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And I like to do this,
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because I don't like to lead anyone on.
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So to lead somebody on is to give them the wrong idea,
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to make them think that they've got a chance with you,
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that the relationship might go somewhere,
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but in reality, it never will.
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So...
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So if I kept agreeing to these dates,
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and letting this person pay for me
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when I have no intention of furthering the relationship,
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I would be leading that person on.
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Then we have one which is a bit more casual.
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This is to hook up.
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To hook up normally means
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to have more of a casual relationship with somebody.
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So...
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So if you say I hooked up with her last night,
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it probably doesn't mean that it's a serious relationship.
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It's more of a casual fling.
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But hey, whatever floats your boat.
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Then we have another one, which is to drift apart,
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and this one's quite sad.
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To drift apart means to lose closeness.
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You know, once you were really in love, really close,
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and then, you drift apart.
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It's quite self-explanatory.
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You don't see eye-to-eye anymore.
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So you could use it in a situation
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where someone asks you, "Why did you break up with your ex?"
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Uh, we just drifted apart.
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We went our separate ways.
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Next, we have to break up.
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To break up.
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This is when a relationship ends.
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Finito, done.
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You can also say to split up as well.
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We split up last year.
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He broke up with me because I was too grumpy.
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However, if you then reconcile, you make up.
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So you break up, and then you make up.
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To make up is to get back together.
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But we made up, and it's been great ever since.
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The next one is a really nice one.
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To put up with.
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And to put with somebody or somebody's behaviour,
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it means to tolerate.
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So why did you split up?
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I couldn't put up with his snoring.
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I could not tolerate his snoring.
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The next one, to cheat on somebody.
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A fly.
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The next one is to cheat on somebody.
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And if you cheat on somebody, you are unfaithful to them.
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Or if you are cheated on, he cheated on me,
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then it means that somebody has been unfaithful to you.
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They've gone off with somebody else behind your back.
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Never a nice thing to happen.
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You could say that they really messed you around.
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To mess somebody around to really treat them in a bad way.
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Maybe one day you say you want to be with them,
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and then the next day you change your mind,
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and they're waiting on your every move.
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You get their hopes up.
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You disappoint them again.
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It's best not to mess anyone around.
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Now the next one is something most of us hope to do one day,
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and that is to settle down, and to settle down means
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to finally find a stable relationship and stay there
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and have a more quiet and relaxed life.
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So your partying days are over.
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You've had enough of dating and meeting loads of new people.
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You find one person that you really like,
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and hopefully really love, and you settle down with them.
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Maybe you start a family, or move in together,
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get married, whatever.
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Settling down is normally quite a nice thing to do.
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