200 English Phrasal Verbs for Everyday Conversations

Welcome to this Phrasal Verbs master class.

Today you're going to learn over 200  phrasal verbs that will help you sound  

fluent, sound natural, and sound  professional in English, of course.

I'm Jennifer from JForrest

English.

Now let's get started.

This is a long lesson, but don't  worry because it's divided into  

individual sections where you'll  learn a group of 10 phrasal verbs,  

then you'll complete a quiz, and then  you'll move on to the next group.

So let's get started with your first.

Group.

Number one to come around  to an opinion or an idea,  

and this means to change your opinion  or to see a new point of view.

Now notice the sentence structure.

Because we have two prepositions around and  two, and then after two we need something.

We need a noun, an opinion, or an idea.

For example, I came around to the new job  after I heard about the benefits package.

So remember, this means you changed your  opinion so previously you didn't want.

The new job.

But now you've come around to it,  so you've changed your opinion.

Now you want the new job because you  heard about the benefits package.

We commonly use this without the preposition 2  

and without specifying the something when  the something has already been mentioned.

For example, at first I didn't want to move  to Boston, but I came around after I visited.

So notice I didn't say I came around to something  

because the something had already  been mentioned, so I came around.

To.

The idea after I visited #2 to  get across a point or a message,  

and this is when you clearly and effectively  communicate a point or a message.

For example, make sure you.

Get.

Across that, the project is over budget,  so if you're having a meeting with a client  

and your boss has this very particular  message or idea, the project is over.

Budget.

And your boss wants you to communicate  that in a clear, effective way.

Your boss wants to make sure you get that across.

Now we also use this when you're talking,  

You're talking, you're talking, and the  ideas aren't really coming out very well.

And after a while you stop and you say what  I'm trying to get across is and then you.

State your.

Point what I'm trying to get  across is the project is.

Over.

Budget #3 to show.

Off.

This is when you deliberately display your skills  or abilities in a way to impress other people.

Now, this is frequently used in the negative.

Don't show off, don't show off.

But there's definitely a time and  a place when you want to show off.

For example, when you're going to a job interview,  

you shouldn't be modest, You should  show off your skills and abilities.

You should talk about all your  awards, your accomplishments,  

your degrees, the compliments you've received.

You want to show off all of your  experience to the interviewer,  

so an interview is the perfect time to show off.

Also, if you're going for your IELTS exam,  

you don't want to be modest with your  knowledge of the English language.

You want to show off your abilities  by using a range of grammatical  

structures and a range of phrasal  verbs and idioms and expressions.

You want to show off to the  interviewer, #4 to count on.

Now this is exactly the same  as to rely on or to depend on.

So you have three different phrasal verbs  all with on that mean the exact same thing.

And this is of course when you trust someone  

or something to complete a  specific task or objective.

For example, I can always  count on Selma to stay late.

So you can trust Selma to complete the specific  task or objective which is to stay late.

And remember you could replace this with rely on I  

can always rely on Selma or depend  on I can always depend on Selma.

Now we frequently use this in a question response.

For example, can I count on you?

Can I count on you to close the deal?

And then you can reply back and say absolutely  you can count on me #5 to come between now.

This is when something disturbs a  relationship and that relationship  

can be a professional relationship, a social  relationship, romantic family relationship.

It can be any kind of relationship.

For example, Jacob and Marcus were best  friends until Sylvie came between them.

So that's the image you could have.

They were close, Jacob and Marcus, but then  Sylvie came between them and now they're divided.

Sylvie disturbed their relationship.

Now it's very common for a girl or a  guy to come between a relationship,  

but it doesn't have to be a person.

It could be that Jacob and Marcus were very  close, but the promotion came between them,  

the new job came between them,  their family came between them,  

their politics came between them,  their religion came between them.

It could be anything between them.

Money.

Is a good one as well.

That comes between people in relationships.

And remember you can use this in any type of  

relationship number six to put  up with something or someone.

And notice this is a 2 preposition phrasal.

Verb.

Put up.

With.

Put up with and.

We use this to say that you tolerate bad  behavior or unwanted behavior to put up with.

For example, I don't know how you put up with.

Your.

Boss, I don't know how you tolerate.

Your.

Boss.

Now of course we can be more specific and  specify the action that the boss does.

I don't know how you put up with your  boss's constant criticism, for example,  

or your boss's distasteful jokes, for example.

I don't know how you tolerate.

It.

Now we commonly use this to say I'm not going.

To.

Put up with and then the behavior.

I'm not going to put up with your constant  criticism any longer #7 to bounce back.

Now to bounce back.

This is when you recover or recuperate.

Now you can use this when you recover from  a negative situation in a business context,  

like for example a bad sales quarter  or a bad product launch for example.

But it can also be when you recover  or recuperate from an illness,  

so you can use it in both those situations.

For example, in a workplace  situation, you could say,  

I don't know how we'll bounce  back from our loss in Q2.

So I don't know how we'll recover.

And then you could have a  discussion how can we bounce back.

Does anyone have any ideas on how we can bounce  

back now in terms of recovering  or recuperating from an illness?

You could say it took me a while  to bounce back after my surgery,  

so it took me a while to  recover recuperate #8 to act up.

This means to behave badly or strangely.

This is very commonly used with  parents describing the actions of  

their young children or even their older children.

My son keeps acting up, behaving badly, but  we can also use this with devices and objects.

For example, my computer keeps  acting up, behaving strangely.

My computer keeps acting up.

I hope it doesn't break #9  to make it up to someone.

This is quite a long one, so pay attention to  this sentence structure to make it up to someone.

Now we use this when you try  to compensate for a wrongdoing.

For example, let's say it's your best  friend's birthday and you can't go.

For whatever.

Reason so this.

Is the.

Wrongdoing Not going to your  best friend's birthday party.

Now, if you want to compensate  for that wrongdoing, you could  

say I'm so sorry I can't make your birthday party.

I promise I'll make it up to you.

I'll make it up to you by taking  you out for a nice dinner.

I'll make it up to you by  going to the movies with you.

I'll make it up to you by buying  you a really nice present.

So those are the ways you're going to compensate.

Now you might be wondering  what is this it the make it up.

To someone.

We use it with it because what  you're trying to compensate for  

has already been explained, so  you don't have to say it again.

Now you can use this in a business context.

Let's say you went over budget on a client's  project and you might say to your team,  

how are we going to make it up to the client?

How are we going to compensate for our wrongdoing?

The wrongdoing is you went over budget.

And then maybe someone would  suggest we can make it up to  

them by offering a discount or offering a  free product, offering an extra service.

So those are how you're going to compensate for  the wrongdoing to make it up to someone #10.

To barge.

In when you barge in, you enter  a place a location unexpectedly,  

and you interrupt whatever's taking place.

For example, I was in my office  working and this kid just.

Barged.

In and handed me his CV, but later I hired him.

So by saying the kid barged in, it implies that  he didn't have an appointment he wasn't expected.

He just.

Barged in unexpectedly and he  interrupted whatever I was working on.

But in this case it was successful because.

He got the job.

So now you have the first group.

So let's complete your quiz.

Here are the questions for the quiz.

You need to complete each sentence  using the correct phrasal verb.

So go ahead and hit pause  now and complete the quiz.

Here are the correct answers.

Go ahead and hit pause and see how well you did.

So make sure you share your score in the comments.

And now let's continue with  your second group of phrasal.

Verbs.

Number one to abide by.

This is more of a formal phrasal verb because  

it's used when you accept or  follow a rule or regulation.

So we use it mainly with government rules,  court rules, even business rules as well.

For example, as a tourist, you have to abide  by the rules of the country you're visiting.

So if you see a sign that says no  parking, you have to abide by that rule.

You have to follow that rule.

Now remember, we also use  this to say you simply accept.

You accept, but then you follow it.

For example, let's say you go to court because  

of a dispute and the court  doesn't rule in your favor.

You still have to abide by that decision.

You have to accept it and then follow it.

So this is a more formal.

Phrasal verb, but.

It's.

Very useful because we all have to abide by  many different rules, regulations, and policies.

#2 to dawn on This is an excellent phrasal  verb to add to your daily vocabulary.

To dawn on is when you finally  realize or understand something.

For example, one day it just dawned  on me that I need to change careers.

So one day I just realized  I need to change careers.

So you can absolutely say realize we're just  

using the phrasal verb dawn  on and it's extremely common.

Now notice the sentence structure here.

It dawned on me something dawns on someone.

So the IT is the realization it dawns  on me that I need to change careers.

So just keep that in mind because the  sentence structure is commonly used  

with it dawns on and then someone #3 to pull off.

This is also a must know phrasal verb.

When you pull something off, you're able to do  something that is difficult or unlikely to do.

For example, let's say you're a wedding planner  and a couple comes to you and tells you they want  

to have this huge 300 person wedding in three  weeks and they want you to plan everything.

That's really difficult.

And it might even be unlikely that you're able  to plan a 300 person wedding in three weeks.

So you could say I don't  know if I can pull that off,  

I don't know if I can do that  because it's very difficult.

I don't know if I can pull that off the  that being planning the 300 person wedding.

Now let's say you do successfully plan the  wedding after you could say I can't believe I.

Pulled.

That off, I can't believe I.

Pulled.

Off planning a 300 person wedding  in only three weeks #4 to.

Back out of.

This is an excellent business phrasal verb.

It's used when you fail to  keep a commitment or a promise.

Now in a business context, A commitment could  be something you agree to or arrange to.

It can be formal and you have a contract in place,  

or it could be more informal and  you just agree to it verbally.

So if you don't keep that  commitment, then you back out of it.

For example, I can't believe the  client backed out at the last minute.

Now notice here I just said backed out.

I didn't use the of.

We only use the of when you  specify the noun, the something.

I can't believe the client  backed out of the agreement,  

the project, the plan, the proposal  at the last minute #5 to clam up.

This is an excellent phrasal verb for all  of you or anyone that does public speaking,  

because when you clam up, you're unable to  speak, usually because of fear or nervousness.

But this can also be used if you simply.

Refuse.

To.

Speak for whatever.

Reason.

For example, I always clam  up when I'm public speaking.

When I'm public speaking, I become  unable to get the words out.

You clam up now.

My advice to you is if you feel like you're  going to clam up, just take a deep breath.

Number six, to Mull over.

When you Mull something over, you think about  it, or you consider it, and the something  

you're mulling over is simply an idea, an idea,  a proposal, a suggestion, and you Mull it over.

You think about it, You consider it.

So let's say you're in a meeting and a client  

or colleague suggests a new tool to  use and you need to think about it.

So you could say give me a few days to Mull it  over and I'll get back to you to Mull it over.

the IT being using the tool, purchasing the tool,  

whatever you're going to do, give  me a few days to Mull it over.

Now you can also specify the noun,  

and you can say I need to Mull the deal  over before I commit #7 to pan out.

This is an extremely common phrasal verb.

To pan out simply talks about  how a situation develops.

For example, I'm not sure  how this merger will pan out.

So the.

Situation here.

Is the merger and we're talking about,  well, how's the merger going to go?

How's it going to develop?

Will it be positive, Will it be negative?

Will there be challenges or difficulties,  benefits, That's how the situation develops.

So here I'm saying, I'm not sure, I'm  not sure how the merger will pan out.

Now let's say the merger has  some difficulties or challenges.

You could say the merger didn't pan out.

Didn't develop the merger.

Didn't pan out as we had expected #8 to ramble on.

This is an excellent one for all you public  speakers, because when you ramble on you.

Talk.

At length without getting to the point.

So let's say I rambled on for 5 minutes  trying to explain the definition of ramble on,  

and at the end you didn't understand  it at all and you're confused.

You're a little annoyed  because I wasted your time.

I rambled on.

So this is used as a negative and it's  used when you're communicating an idea.

So we generally use this as a complaint.

The speaker rambled on for  20 minutes #9 to nod off.

This is when you fall asleep,  but it's when you fall asleep,  

usually for a very short period of time  and usually when you're not supposed to.

So this isn't when you go to  bed at the end of the night.

OK, so let's say you're in a meeting at  work and your colleague is rambling on,  

and the topic is very boring.

And you?

Start doing this.

That is nodding off and this motion  of your head, what I'm doing.

This is the verb.

To.

Nod.

Nod your head.

So when you fall asleep, what do you do?

You nod your head.

So that's where this.

Phrasal.

Verb to nod off comes from.

And remember, we use this  for short periods of time,  

usually when you're not supposed to fall  asleep, for example, when you're driving.

So I might say I always listen to  loud music when I'm driving at night,  

so I don't nod off and number.

10I.

Love this phrasal verb to luck.

Out.

When you luck out, you're very  lucky in a specific situation.

So let's say there's this major sale  on the new iPhone model and they're  

selling for 50% off and you go to the  store and you get the very last one.

You could say, I can't believe I lucked  out and got the new iPhone for 50% off.

You lucked out.

You were very lucky in this specific situation.

Or let's say you're driving during rush  hour and you're going to an appointment.

And.

You get a parking spot right in front  of the office in rush hour downtown.

You can say I can't believe I lucked out  and got such an amazing parking spot.

Or if you're telling that story to a friend,  

I got this parking spot right in front of  the building downtown during rush hour.

They could say, wow, you really lucked out.

You really lucked out by  getting that parking spot.

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Number one to rip off.

We use this when someone is selling something  or buying something and the buyer feels that  

the price is too high compared to  the value of whatever they're buying.

For example, I can't believe I paid $200 for that.

She ripped me off.

Now notice the sentence structure.

You rip someone off.

She ripped me off.

Another example, She told everyone that I  ripped her off, but it was a fair price.

So just because someone claims you  ripped them off, it doesn't necessarily?

Mean It's true.

#2 To wear out.

We use this when something is damaged or weakened  because of age, it's old, or because of use.

You've used it a lot.

For example, I wore out my  tennis shoes last summer.

If someone said that to me, I would assume  they played a lot of tennis last summer.

They played so much tennis that they wore out.

Their.

Shoes.

They became damaged from use  from continually playing tennis.

We also use this in an  adjective form to be worn out.

So it would be very common to say I need to  buy new tennis shoes because mine are worn out.

So of course are because shoes is plural and  we need the plural form of the verb to be mine.

My tennis shoes are worn out, so both  forms are very common #3 to draw up.

We use this when you need to prepare paperwork,  

and generally that paperwork is for  a contract, an agreement, a proposal,  

generally something that two people need  to sign or agree on to make it official.

For example, I asked my lawyer to draw up.

The.

Papers.

Whenever you're dealing with a lawyer, the.

Papers are going to be.

Official so this is a perfect  time to use to draw up.

Or you could say we're waiting for our  bank to draw up the mortgage agreement,  

so that's another very official  document that you need to sign.

And you can use the phrasal  verb to draw up #4 to burn out.

This is a phrasal verb that has gotten a lot of  attention recently, especially with the pandemic.

Because to burn out.

This is when you feel exhausted, mentally  or physically, from prolonged stress.

Stress of work, stress of a situation  like a pandemic, stress of a family,  

situation like a divorce or an illness,  something like that, but a prolonged period.

You can be stressed out for a day, but  when you burn out, it means you've had  

that stress for a long period of time, several  weeks, several months, even several years.

For example, I burned out at my last job,  

so perhaps I was working so much that I went  through this period of prolonged stress.

I burned out another example.

I burned out after caring for my aging parents.

So caregivers often experience burnout.

So you can use this in a work situation or you  can use it in a personal situation as well.

#5 to look up to someone.

So notice we have two prepositions.

Look up two and then someone.

We use this when you admire  someone or you respect someone.

So I could say I looked up to him like a father.

So of course I admire and respect my father and  I'm comparing the situation to someone else.

I looked up to him.

I admired him like a father.

Another example, I really look up to my boss.

So you admire your boss or you respect your boss.

You hold your boss in high regard.

So you can use this in a work situation.

You can look up to people.

And you can use this in a social  situation, a family situation.

You can have many different people in your  life that you look up to for different reasons.

Number six, to step up.

Now, that's the phrase is a verb, but we most  commonly use it in the expression to step it up.

Notice that it it's very important  to step it up, to step it up.

This simply means to work harder or to try harder.

Now you can say we need to step it up  if we're going to meet the deadline.

So you have this deadline,  you need to work harder.

So it's the same as saying we need to work  harder if we're going to meet the deadline.

Step it up now, what is this it in the expression?

Well, the IT would represent.

Work.

Or effort.

We need to step up our work.

We need to step up our effort.

Step it up.

I encourage you to use it that way.

Step it up because you'll  sound like a native speaker.

We have a really common expression with this.

Step it up and then you add the two.

Words.

A notch.

Step it up a notch.

If you look at a dial, A  notch is 1 move on the dial,  

so it represents a little bit, A small amount.

Step it up a notch.

It's just like saying step it up a little bit.

So that's just a common expression.

You need to step it up a notch  if you want to meet the deadline.

So you can use it with a notch.

It's very common.

Or you you can use it without #7 to hone in on.

This is another two preposition phrasal verb.

We have hone in on, hone in on something and this  

means to really focus on something to put  all your attention on something specific.

For example, if we want to get more customers, we  should really hone in on small business owners.

So maybe right now you're not being very  specific and you're looking at all customers,  

but you want to hone in on one specific segment  of the population, small business owners.

So you're going to focus on them,  You're going to hone in on them.

Another example for the presentation, we  should really hone in on South America.

So maybe you're a global company and  you have branches all over the world.

But for this specific presentation,  

you're going to hone in on one specific  part of the world, South America #8.

This is a must know phrasal verb to bring up.

And this is when you begin a  discussion on a specific topic.

For example, if you're in a staff meeting, it  would be very common for the boss or whoever  

is leading the meeting to say before we end the  meeting, does anyone have anything to bring up?

Does anyone have a specific  topic they want to discuss?

Does anyone have anything to bring up?

Or after the meeting you  might tell another colleague?

I didn't have a chance to bring  up the marketing proposal,  

so you didn't have a chance to discuss this  specific topic, the marketing proposal.

Maybe you ran out of time #9 to talk  into and the sentence structure is  

to talk someone into something, and this  means to convince someone to do something.

For example, she talked me into helping her move.

She convinced me to help her move.

So when someone uses this, oh, she  talked me into helping her move.

It gives you the impression that the person didn't  really want to do the activity, but somebody.

Convinced them.

But please, I really need your help.

I'll buy pizza.

Or maybe you could say my team talked me into  bringing up the bonus at the staff meeting.

So notice I use bring up discuss  a specific topic, the bonus.

My team talked me into bringing up the bonus  now, because maybe discussing the bonus is  

a little bit of a sensitive issue and nobody  wants to do it, but your team convinced you.

Lucky you.

So they talked you into.

It.

And #10 to stick around, this  is a must use phrasal verb.

You can use it in a social  setting or a professional setting.

To stick around means to stay in  a location for a period of time.

So let's say you're at this  beautiful park with a friend,  

and after an hour or so your friend has to leave  and they say, do you want to share an Uber?

And you say, no, I'm going to  stick around a little bit longer.

So you're going to stay in a specific  location, the park, for a period of time.

It's unknown how long you'll stay.

That doesn't really matter.

It's just the fact you're going to stay.

I'm going to stick around a little bit longer.

It's such a beautiful day.

I'm going to stick around now.

You can also use this in the negative.

I can't stick around very  long because I have a meeting.

Although it's a beautiful day,  I can't stick around very long.

I have a meeting to get back.

To.

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to take up this means to occupy or to fill.

Now we use this specifically  with two different nouns.

You can take up time and you can take up  space, and they're both very commonly used.

For example, I could say this  meeting took up my whole morning,  

so it occupied or filled the amount of time.

Now we can also use this with space.

For example, I need a new couch because  my couch takes up too much space S It  

occupies or fills space S Remember, you  can use this with both time and space,  

and they're both very commonly used #2 to branch.

Out.

Now this means to expand and we use  this specifically in a business context.

So let's say you're in a meeting and you're  discussing how to increase your profits.

You might suggest branching out into new markets.

So if you only sell in North  America, you can branch out,  

expand and sell in Europe or  in Asia, Africa for example.

We need to branch out into new markets #3.

This is a fun one to jot down.

Now you would probably understand  this from context in the meeting.

I jotted down a few notes.

I jot it down a few notes, so it's  the exact same thing as write down.

I wrote down a few notes,  but it's very commonly used.

So someone might ask you, maybe your  boss or a colleague even might say,  

hey, can you jot this down?

And then they might give you a number or a  date or a location and you write it down.

Now, of course, not many people  use pen and paper anymore.

More, right?

We take electronic notes.

But if your colleague asks you to jot something  down, you can absolutely take out your phone  

and make a note in your phone, jot it down  in your phone, write it down in your phone.

So this still applies even though we don't  really use pen and paper much #4 to carry out  

this means to perform or to conduct, and we  use this specifically in a business context.

For example, next week we're carrying  out our our customer surveys,  

our student surveys, We're  carrying out our surveys.

We're conducting them, We're performing them.

So I'm just going to do the survey.

That's the simplest.

Way to say it, next week we're doing the surveys.

We're.

Carrying out the surveys #5.

This is an important one, so make sure you  jot it down #5 to keep up with something.

This means to make sufficient progress on.

Let's say that you have this many orders,  and it's your job to fulfill those orders.

If you fulfill this many, you've kept up with  the orders, you've made sufficient progress.

But if you fulfill this many, or this many,  

or this many, or anything less than the  total number of orders, then you haven't.

Kept up with the.

Orders you haven't made sufficient progress on.

Now, of course, you can use this  with many things other than orders.

You can use it with your studies,  your reading list, your chores,  

your performance reports,  your filing, your scheduling.

You can use it with many, many, many other tasks.

Number six, to fill out or to fill in a form.

Now this is one that confuses a  lot of students and they ask me.

Do I fill out a?

Form.

Do I fill in the form?

What's the difference?

The reality is there is no difference  specifically when we're talking about a form.

Now when you have to fill out an.

Application.

You could also fill in an application.

Fill out your passport renewal.

You can fill in your passport  renewal in this specific context.

There's no difference.

#7 to drop in.

This is a great phrasal verb because you can use  it both in a business context or a social context.

Now, to drop in simply means to visit.

So if you're talking to a friend and  you're planning to visit that friend,  

you can say how about I drop in Saturday morning?

How about I visit Saturday morning?

Now in a business context, you might have a  client that wants to drop in that wants to visit.

Or you might drop in on a client just to say  hello and to keep that relationship going.

So you can use this in both a social  and a business context #8 to push back.

This means to delay or postpone in  the context of a scheduled event.

So a scheduled event like a meeting.

Let's say the meeting was scheduled for  Monday, but everyone is really busy on Monday.

Well then push the meeting back until Wednesday.

Postpone it until Wednesday.

Now you can use this in a social context.

So you might be planning your wedding anniversary  and it's your 10 year wedding anniversary and the  

actual date is March 30th, but everyone is busy so  you might push it back until the middle of April.

So more people can attend.

Well, everyone's busy, so let's push back the  party until next week, until two weeks from now.

So you can push back a scheduled event, which  means to delay or postpone #9 to call off.

Now this means to cancel a scheduled event.

So remember in our last one to  push back you delay or postpone.

But the other alternative is simply to cancel it.

But generally when you call  something off it's because.

There.

Were some problems or issues associated with it,  

but the problem or issue could be a scheduling  conflict and just people couldn't attend.

So let's say you were planning  a conference for the summer,  

but nobody registered because  everyone's really busy in the summer.

So you might discuss it with your team  and say let's call off the conference.

Attendance is too low, so let's call it off.

Let's cancel it now.

You can also use this in a social context.

You might.

Call off.

Your wedding.

But if you cancelled your wedding,  then most likely there was a problem.

An issue.

A.

Big one, right?

So in that context, in a social event,  most people will wonder what happened.

Why did they call off their wedding?

Why did they call off their anniversary?

They're going to assume that something is wrong.

And #10 to sort out.

This means to organize or to.

Fix if there's a.

Problem.

For example, I need to sort out my travel plans,  so it could mean I just need to organize them.

So I need to decide when I'm going to travel,  

what airline I'm going to use,  what hotel I'm going to use.

I need to sort out my travel plans,  

but I can also use it if there's some  sort of problem and I need to fix it.

For example, my flight was cancelled,  so I need to sort out my travel plans.

I need to fix this problem with  my plans So to sort something out,  

you can organize it or you can  fix it if there's a problem.

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Number one, to tune out.

This is a very useful phrasal verb because  it's used to say you stop listening to someone,  

You stop paying attention to them because you  don't like what they're saying, basically.

So you tune someone out.

This is something that kids do all  the time with their parents, right?

If your parent is giving you advice and you  don't want to hear it, you just tune them out.

So your parent is talking but  you're just not really listening.

So you might say, I always tune out my  mom when she gives me relationship advice.

Now, this can also happen a lot in a  workplace situation, let's say the.

Co worker that sits.

Beside you is just a very negative  person and complaints a lot.

You might just simply tune them  out so you stop listening to them  

because you don't want to hear all  that negativity and complaining.

So you just tune them out.

They're talking, but you're  not listening #2 to tick off.

This is a useful one because it means  to annoy, to anger, or to irritate.

Now we use this in two very  specific sentence structures.

It ticks someone.

Off.

It ticks me off when my coworker doesn't help.

So it ticks someone off, and  then you explain the situation.

That causes the anger, the  frustration, or the irritation.

Now the other sentence structure is just  to say someone or something ticks me off.

John really ticks me off.

He's so negative.

John really irritates me,  frustrates me, annoys me.

John really ticks me off.

He's so negative, but I just.

Tune.

Him out.

Number three, to talk up and you  talk someone or something up.

And that means you speak in a way that makes that  someone or something sound really, beneficial,  

really positive, really amazing,  maybe even more so than the reality.

So let's say you're in sales and you're trying  to sell this piece of software to a company.

Well, you're going to talk up that software.

You're going to talk about that software in a way  

that really highlights all  of its positive features.

And you probably won't  mention any negative features.

You're going to talk it up, Or let's say that your  

really close friend applied  for a job in your company.

Well, you're probably going  to talk up your friend.

You're going to speak about your friend  very enthusiastically, very positively,  

because you want your friend to get the job.

You're going to talk up your friend #4?

To.

Pile up.

This means simply to increase in amount  and we generally use this with work.

So in general you could say  work is really piling up.

Work is increasing in amount.

You can use this with specific work.

So you might say my expense reports are  piling up, or even with household chores.

You might say the laundry is piling  up, The Dirty dishes are piling up.

They're increasing in amount #5  to mope around, to mope around.

This is when someone moves from one location to  another, but they do it in a very unhappy way.

A lazy way.

A disappointed way.

And it's generally because something is wrong.

Something specific is wrong.

So maybe they just lost their job or  they just broke up with their girlfriend.

So they mope around the house all day.

They go from the couch to the  kitchen, back to the couch,  

but they look really upset and lazy and no  energy, so this isn't really a positive thing.

We generally say stop moping around.

You need to stop moping around  and start looking for a job.

If that's the reason why you're moping around  because you lost your job, stop moping around and.

Look.

For a job.

Number six, to loosen up.

This is a great one.

It means to be more relaxed,  more comfortable or less serious.

So you might say she was very shy at first,  

but then she loosened up so she  became more relaxed, more comfortable.

Now we often use this as advice to  someone if someone is just being too.

Serious.

You might say loosen up, loosen up.

It's similar to saying relax a  little, relax a little, loosen up.

You need to loosen up.

Oh, just loosen up #7 to kick off.

This is a great one because when you  kick something off it means you start.

We use this in the context of a sports event,  a meeting, a conference or even a party.

So some sort of event with people.

So when?

Sports is very.

Common to say the game the match kicks  off at and then you say the time the  

match kicks off at 3, the game kicks off  at 7 and that's just when the game starts.

Now, you could also say, let's kick  off the meeting by and then you can  

explain how you're going to start the meeting.

Let's kick off the meeting  by introducing the new CFO,  

or let's kick off the meeting  by sharing the good news #8.

This is a fun one to horse around.

Horse around you behave in a silly or noisy way.

So basically what children do all the time.

They horse around, but you might say the kids were  horsing around and they broke my favorite vase.

Now, although this is commonly used in children,  

it can of course be used for  adults as well, because adults act.

In.

Silly and noisy ways all the time, right?

Even in workplace context.

So you might be talking about how your  team is constantly horsing around,  

and as a bonus you can also say goof around.

It's an alternative, but  they're both very commonly used,  

so horse around or goof around #9 to get by.

This is when you have just enough money  to live on, but not very much extra,  

so you can basically pay all  your bills, and that's about.

It.

So you might say, sense our twins were  born, it's been more difficult to get by.

You have two new babies in the house.

Well, first, congratulations.

But of course, that's very expensive.

So now you only have enough money  to pay your bills to buy the food,  

buy the diapers, buy the groceries,  pay your mortgage, things like that.

We're getting by, We're getting by.

You're just surviving.

So if someone knows you're going  through a tough time financially,  

maybe you lost your job and  they ask you, how's it going?

Is everything OK?

You could say, well, I'm getting by, I'm getting  by, which lets them know you're surviving.

You have enough to pay all your core  expenses, and finally #10 to flip out.

Now this can mean to become very excited, but it  can also mean to become very angry or agitated.

So with when you have a very strong emotion,  but that emotion can be positive excitement  

or it can be negative anger and it  will be obvious based on context.

So if you just won a competition  or a prize or the lottery,  

you might flip out and become very, very excited.

Right?

The sports.

Team.

Flipped out when they won the gold  medal or the team flipped out when  

they lost the game, the team became very angry.

So you can use it in both situations and  for this expression you can also say.

Freak out.

Freak out.

Flip out.

They mean the same.

And again, positive excitement or negative anger.

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Let's keep going with the next group.

And remember, you'll learn a group of 10.

You'll complete a quiz, and then  you'll move on to the next group.

Number one to ache 4.

To ache 4.

This is a very nice romantic phrasal verb.

Now, we really use this in the  context of a romantic relationship,  

so make sure use that appropriately.

And to ache for something or someone is when you  really, really want that something or someone.

For example, he was lonely and aching for love.

So this is perhaps a little  more of a poetic phrasal verb.

You will.

Probably hear it.

In novels, stories, movies,  TV, he was aching for love.

So maybe you won't use that in your.

Vocabulary, but you'll likely hear it.

In romance movies or romance novels now you  may be more likely to use ache or someone.

Let's say your husband is overseas on a business  trip and he'll be gone for two or three weeks.

You might say I'm aching for my husband.

So if you're talking to your friends or family,  

even your colleagues, you could say,  oh, I'm really aching for my husband.

He's been gone for two  weeks already #2 to beef up.

This is a fun one.

When you beef something up, you  make it stronger or more important.

Now, we do use this in the context  of bodybuilders, and they can beef  

themselves up, become more muscular, So  you can use that in a fitness context.

But we also use this in more of a  business context, perhaps surprisingly,  

because you might say, I  need to beef up my resume.

I need to make my resume stronger, or,  

more important, I need to beef  up my communication skills.

For.

Example #3 to make up and in  this context we're talking  

about to make up with someone, with someone.

To make up with someone is when you forgive  someone after an argument or a dispute.

In a family context, young  kids argue a lot, right?

And.

Older kids, too.

But you might say to your son, your daughter,  you need to make up with your sister.

You need to make up with your brother.

You need to make take up with your cousin or a  friend and you list a specific person, which means  

you need to forgive that person, stop being angry  at that person, stop fighting with that person.

So we definitely use this in a  social context of family context,  

but you can absolutely use  this in a professional context.

Co workers fight as well.

There are disagreements in companies.

So you say to 1 coworker Sally,  you need to make up with Mark.

You work on the same team.

You have to get along.

You need to make up with each other.

#4 to nail down this is when you understand the  

exact details of something or you  get a firm decision on something.

So let's say you're planning a conference and  you have a general idea of the conference.

It will take place in summer.

It will be on this general topic or  theme, but when are the exact dates?

What specific topics?

Who?

Specifically, will be the keynote speaker.

Who specifically will be presenting?

Who will you hire to cater the conference?

You need to nail down those details, so you need  to either understand the exact details or you need  

to make a firm decision on who's going to cater  when the conference will exactly take place.

So that's a very useful phrase, a verb,  

and you can use it in a business  context or a social context.

#5 to open up.

When you open up to someone, you talk very  freely about your feelings or your emotions,  

things that make you quite vulnerable, things  you probably don't share with everybody.

For example, after years, she  finally opened up about his death.

So for many years there was this tragic death,  perhaps, and she didn't really talk about it.

She didn't talk about her  feelings about the death.

But then, after years, she opened up.

She started talking freely about  how she felt, the circumstances,  

how she's dealing with it, those types of  things, her inner feelings and emotions.

Now notice I didn't use to someone.

I could say she opened up.

To.

Her family.

About.

His death.

So you have about and then the specific  topic and two and the specific people.

You'll commonly hear people say, I've never  opened up to anybody like this before.

If someone says that to you, they're basically  saying they feel very comfortable around you.

They feel like they can share  their inner thoughts, feelings,  

emotions, and that's a very positive thing.

It shows you have a very close relationship,  number six, to slip into something.

Now this is when you quickly  put on a piece of clothing.

So this is a very specific phrasal verb.

It's only used with clothing.

Now, for example, this shirt  is quite pretty, isn't it?

But let's be honest, it's not  the most comfortable shirt.

So after I'm done recording this video,  I'm going to slip into a T-shirt.

I'm going to put on a T-shirt or.

If it's.

First thing in the morning and you're in your  house coat, but then you hear your doorbell.

You might quickly slip into  some sweatpants and answer.

The door.

So it's simply another way to say,  put on #7, to stand by something.

When you stand by something, it's used to show  that you still support or believe something.

So I might say we stand by our opinion  that interest rates need to increase.

So that's my opinion, That's my belief  interest rates need to increase.

I stand by that.

I still support that.

I still believe that.

So you'll hear this a lot from people in  power, politicians, executives in business.

They'll have an opinion, have a  belief, and then they'll state,  

I stand by that to let you know they  still believe that specific opinion.

You stand by that, And if so.

Why I stand by that?

Yes, I stand by that.

And the reason simply is.

Now we also use this with stand by someone.

When you stand by someone, it  means that you support someone,  

usually when something negative has happened.

So let's say that your Co worker was  accused of stealing from the company,  

but you know your Co worker didn't do it.

You might say I I stand by her, I stand by her,  

which means you're going to support her in this  difficult time #8 to wind down, to wind down.

This is an excellent phrasal verb because it  means to relax after a busy or stressful day.

So you might say I always read at  the end of the day to wind down.

To help me wind down.

I always read at the end of the day.

Or I go for a walk after work to wind down.

So it just means to relax.

But it's another way of saying it,  

and it implies that you were very busy or  stressed out to wind down #9 to zone out.

This is when you stop paying  attention for a short period of time.

Now we've all done this, especially when we were  

kids in school and your teachers  talking and you just zone out.

Now generally people zone out because they  don't have interest in a particular topic.

For example, whenever people  talk about sports, I zone out.

I just stop listening and I start thinking  about something else in my own head,  

and I'm not listening to the  conversation about sports.

I zone out, I stop paying attention,  

but then when the conversation  changes, I'll pay attention again.

So it's always for that short  period of time #10 to turn in.

This is a very useful phrasal verb  because it simply means to go to bed.

It's another way of saying to  go to bed, and it's very common.

So of course you can say I'm tired, I'm going  to bed, but you can also say I'm tired, I'm  

going to turn in, I'm going to turn in, and it's  extremely commonly used, so I suggest you use it.

You can use it as a suggestion.

Hey, it's getting late and you  have that job interview tomorrow.

You should turn in.

You should go to bed.

Or you can use it in question form as well.

What time did you turn in?

What time did you go to bed?

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To act on this simply means  to take action, so to act.

But you act on specific information, advice,  or recommendations that you've received.

For example, the manager acted on the findings.

Of the report.

So of course in this report there's  lots of information and advice.

And if you act on that information, the  manager acted on the findings of the  

report or in a meeting you might suggest to your  coworkers, we need to act on the recommendations.

We need to take action outside  of the workplace, you might say.

We need to act on the advice  from our financial analysts.

So they gave you some advice.

You need to act on it #2  to bargain 4 to bargain 4.

This is when you expect something to happen,  

but that something is usually negative, so  you expect something negative to happen.

Now notice the sentence structure here.

Because we most commonly use this  phrasal verb in in the negative form.

We hadn't bargained for such a high  interest rate, so it's saying we didn't.

Expect.

Or you could say we hadn't bargained  for so many people at the conference.

So this is a great expression that you can use,  

but I recommend using it in the  negative number three to opt in.

When you opt into something, it means  you become a member of something.

So if you're a new employee at the company,  

they might have certain things that are  membership based, such as the pension plan,  

the healthcare plan or other insurance  plans, maybe even some committees.

And if you want to be a  member, you need to opt in.

For example, as a new employee, you  need to opt into the insurance plan.

Now the opposite of IN is out, so if you  don't want to be a member, you can opt out.

So for example, new employees are  automatically added to the insurance policy.

If you don't want to be a  member, you need to opt out.

You need to opt.

Out.

#4 to play down.

This is a great phrasal verb.

It means to make something seem less  important or less serious than it really is.

For example, the government tried to play  down the scandal, so they had the scandal,  

and they want to make it seem  less important or less serious.

They try to play it down.

Or I could say the documentary  played down his divorce.

So there's this documentary on this person who got  divorced and they're trying to make it seem less  

serious or less important than it really was in  reality, and that's what you need to keep in mind.

In reality, the situation was more serious,  but the documentary played it down.

It wasn't that big of a deal #5  to drop out when you drop out.

This is specifically used when you quit a course  or you quit an entire program, a school program.

So if you're pursuing a degree  and you quit, then you drop.

Out.

Now, interestingly, Bill Gates dropped  out of college to start Microsoft,  

and we know how successful that was.

So although it might seem negative  that you drop out, you quit.

Maybe not always the case.

Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook,  also dropped out of college to start Facebook.

I'm not encouraging you to.

Drop out.

But it's not always a negative, and you  can also use this for a specific course.

For example, I think I'm  going to drop out a calculus.

It's too difficult.

I'm going to.

Quit.

Calculus number six to cut back.

This is when you spend less, you do  less, or you use less of something.

This is very commonly used  by governments or companies.

The government has announced plans to  cut back on defense spending by 10%.

Now notice I said on if you specify  the something defense spending,  

you need to use the preposition on cut  back on cut back on defense spending.

I could also just say the government  announced plans to cut back.

In that sense, it's just.

Reduce reduce.

Spending spend less and then you have to clarify.

We'll cut back on what now?

We frequently use this as advice to someone.

Let's say you told me, Jennifer,  I drink 10 sodas a day.

I would say, whoa, you should cut back.

You should consume less.

That's too much soda.

You should cut back.

#7 to sit in on this is a  great business phrasal verb.

It's used specifically in the context of a  meeting, and when you sit in on a meeting,  

it means you attend a meeting, but you  only attend that meeting as an observer.

So you're not going to participate,  you're not going to present, you're  

not going to ask questions, you're  just going to attend as an observer.

So if there's a really interesting meeting  at work, but you're not directly related  

to the subject matter, you might ask  the organizer, Is it OK if I sit in  

on the meeting today And which means  you're just going to attend to listen,  

to receive the information,  you're not going to participate.

Or if you're planning a sales meeting, you might  

say it would be useful to have someone  from accounting sit in on the meeting.

So someone from accounting is just going  to be there to absorb the information,  

but you don't expect them to  participate or present anything.

So, very useful phrasal verb in a business context  #8 this is a fun one to whip up, to whip up.

This is very specific because it's used with  food and it's used when you make food quickly.

So you make yourself breakfast, lunch,  dinner, a snack, it doesn't matter.

You make any type of food,  but you do it really quickly.

So you might say, Oh no, I'm running late.

I need to whip up my breakfast.

I need to make my breakfast really quickly.

Or let's say you have some guests  come come over unexpectedly,  

and you want to serve them something  you might say to your husband.

Give me a few minutes to whip up some appetizers.

I'm going to make some appetizers really quickly,  

so it's a great phrasal verb that you can  add to your daily vocabulary #9 to dress up.

I love this phrasal verb.

To dress up is when you wear more professional or  formal clothing, usually for a specific occasion.

So if you're going out for a nice dinner,  

maybe it's someone's birthday or  an anniversary, you would dress up.

You would wear more formal or professional  clothing than you normally would.

Or let's say you have some really important  yes, coming into your office, some VIP guests.

Well, you might dress up.

If you normally wear just a T-shirt, well,  

you might put on a dress shirt,  maybe even a suit with a tie.

Or if.

You're going to a wedding?

Of course.

That's a great opportunity to dress  up, to wear more formal clothing.

Now, we often use this in question form.

If you're invited to a dinner or a party,  you might ask do I need to dress up?

Do I need to wear more formal clothing?

And they can reply back and say no, It's informal.

There's no need to dress up and  #10 to get at to get at something.

When someone is getting at something, they're  trying to explain or express something specific.

We commonly use this in question form.

Let's say your coworker is talking  to you and they're talking about  

a meeting that you have, but  you're not really sure what.

They're.

Trying to express to you what  they're trying to explain,  

you could say I'm not sure what you're getting at.

I'm not sure what you mean.

I'm not sure what you're trying to explain.

I'm not sure what you're getting at.

Now.

We also use this when we're  trying to explain something  

and the explanation isn't going too well.

And then we can say what I'm trying  to get at is we need to cut back.

What I'm trying to get AT is.

And then you state what you mean,  what you're trying to explain.

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on this means to be connected  to or related to, for example.

I don't see how that  information bears on this case.

So I don't see how that information is  connected to or related to this case.

I don't see how it bears on this case.

Now we can also mean to bear  on to mean influence or affect.

For example, our relationship  didn't bear on my decision.

So maybe you have a personal relationship  with a contractor, and you interviewed many  

contractors and you chose the one you have  a personal relationship with, but you want  

people to know that personal relationship didn't  impact or affect it didn't bear on my decision.

This is a more professional  or formal phrasal verb.

You'll hear it a lot in the news, in reports,  and you can use it a lot in a business context.

#2 to care for something.

When you care for something,  not someone something,  

it means that you like you have  a preference for that something.

But we commonly use this in the negative.

So I could say I don't care for chocolate  cake, I don't care for chocolate cake.

It's just another way of saying  I don't like chocolate cake.

I don't have a preference for chocolate  cake, I don't care for chocolate cake.

So it's another way.

If somebody offers you something,  

you could decline it and simply say,  oh, I don't care for chocolate cake.

Or if your.

Coworkers are discussing the latest reality TV  

show and they want to know  what you think about it.

You could say I don't care for reality TV, it's  just letting them know you don't really like it.

It's not your personal preference #3 to perk up.

To perk up means to feel better,  happier, or more energized.

So think of first thing in  the morning when you wake up.

You're still pretty sleepy, right?

And what do a lot of people do?

They drink coffee, so you  could say coffee perks me up,  

coffee makes me more energized  or going for a walk perks me up.

We also use this when someone isn't feeling  well because they're sick or because something  

negative happened, like they lost their job and  you might go over with some flowers with some.

Chocolates or just?

With yourself to try to help,  Perk up that other person,  

to help make them feel better,  happier, more energized.

So you might say, well, the flowers perked her  up, perked her up, the flowers perked her up.

The flowers made her feel better, happier,  more energized, #4 to sift through.

This is a great phrasal verb.

We use this when you have large amounts of  information, perhaps a lot of paperwork or files,  

books, and you need to examine that information  to determine what's useful, what's important.

For example, after Giuliano  quit, I had to sift through.

All.

His files.

So he has all these files, a lot of  information, and you have to examine  

all of them to determine what you can delete  and what's important and you need to keep.

Or at home, maybe you're going  through your grandmother's photo  

albums and she has 20-30 different photo albums.

So you might ask your brother, can you help me  sift through these photo albums So you're going to  

examine them to determine what pictures you want  to keep and what pictures you want to get rid of.

Maybe you don't know who's in that photo,  or the quality is really bad #5 to wrap up.

This is another way way of  saying to end to finish,  

but is very commonly used  especially in a business context.

So if you're in a meeting and you're  coming to the end of the meeting,  

you could simply say, all right everyone,  let's wrap up, Let's wrap up for today.

Now we commonly add it, let's wrap  it up, let's wrap it up for today.

It's getting late, let's wrap it up.

The IT is the meeting, the meeting, the  conference, the event, whatever you're in  

that you want to finish or end or you could  say how should we wrap up the conference?

How should we finish or end the conference?

You want to do it in a memorable way, right?

How should we wrap up the conference?

And then you can have a discussion  on that number six to flip through.

When you flip through a book, a report,  

a magazine, it means you go  through it really quickly.

So usually because you want to get a  general idea of what that book is about.

Or because you're.

Looking for very specific information.

So if you have this report that's 130 pages,  but you're looking for a very specific piece  

of information, you can just quickly flip through  do it to find that specific part of the report.

Or you can do this when you're waiting  for a friend to arrive, waiting for a bus.

You might flip through a magazine, just  look through it, but you're not really  

reading anything, you're just flipping through it.

You're going through it quickly #7 to draw out.

When you Draw Something out, you make it  a lot longer than necessary or needed,  

so it's usually used in a more negative context.

For example, he really drew.

Out.

His speech.

He made the speech a lot longer than it  needed to be, or that it should have been.

So it's more of a negative.

It's criticizing the speech.

Or you could say they really  drew out the ending of the movie.

So maybe you were enjoying the movie,  but then the end was just really long,  

way longer than it needed to be.

And you're wondering, when  is this movie going to end?

They really drew out the end  of the movie #8 to fall behind.

This is a great phrasal verb for both a  professional context and a personal context.

When you fall behind, it means you make  less progress than wanted or needed.

Let's say you.

Were.

Off sick from work.

For.

Over a week, well, you're  definitely going to fall behind.

You're going to make less progress than  needed because you have a deadline,  

or than just you simply wanted to make  because you were gone for an entire week.

So often we can fall behind because we're  sick, or there's a competing deadline or  

competing project or something  going on in your personal life.

But it could also simply be because we didn't work  hard enough or fast enough and we fell behind.

So in a school context, if you don't spend  enough time reading or doing your homework,  

your exercises, you might fall behind.

And if you fall behind, you might have to ask  

your professor for an extension on a  specific assignment #9 to get around.

This is when you move from place to  place within a specific location.

So let's say the location is your  city and I'm visiting your city.

I could ask you what's the best way.

To.

Get around.

What's the best method of  transportation to go from place?

To.

Place within your city.

So what would you say?

What's the best way to get around in your city?

And then you can say, oh Jennifer,  you can easily get around on foot,  

which means you can walk from location to  location because your city is very small.

Or you might say you definitely  need a car to get around.

Maybe your city is.

Quite large and spaced out,  and it's not possible to walk,  

so you need a car to get around,  to go from place to place.

So this is an extremely useful  phrasal verb when you're a tourist,  

because you should absolutely know how to  get around in the city you're visiting.

And finally #10 to put off.

When you put something off, it  means you delay it or postpone it.

Now, you could put off a meeting.

You could delay or postpone a  meeting for a specific reason.

You might say, let's put off  the meeting until next week.

So let's delay the meeting until next week.

A lot of times people will put off things that  are unpleasant, things they don't want to do.

For example, I've been putting  off asking my boss for a raise.

I've been putting off asking my boss for a raise.

So notice the jaron verb.

I've been putting off asking.

I've been putting off cleaning my closet.

I've been putting off buying new  tires, so you need that jaron verb.

And why are you delaying at postponing?

Because it's uncomfortable, Unpleasant.

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And you aim at a target.

And when you aim at a target, this  means to intend to achieve that target.

So you just try, you try to achieve that target.

For example, they're aiming  at reducing their cost by 10%.

So what's the target in this sentence?

Reducing their cost by 10%.

That entire clause is the target.

Now notice we have a gerund verb.

So you can absolutely have a gerund verb.

You can aim at doing something, so a gerund verb.

You can also use a noun.

For example, his slingshot was  aimed at his neighbor's garage.

So the target in this example  is the neighbor's garage,  

and his slingshot was aimed at because that's  the target he's attempting to achieve #2.

This is a great one to shrug off.

When you shrug something off, you disregard it.

You don't consider it important.

So I could say his insult, an insult is  something negative you say to another person.

His insult was aimed at me,  to use our first phrasal verb.

His insult was aimed at me.

But I shrugged it off.

I said, Nah, I don't care.

I'm not going to let it bother me.

I'm not going to let it hurt me.

It's not important.

I'm going to disregard it.

I'm going to shrug it off.

Now notice what I'm doing with my  shoulders, because this is the verb shrug.

You can shrug your shoulders,  and we generally do that.

When we want to say meh, whatever.

We tend to shrug our shoulders.

So that's where this expression comes from.

#3 to egg on.

That's right, to egg on.

This is a fun one.

When you egg someone on, you  encourage them to do something,  

but that something isn't in their best interest.

For example, let's say a student  is arguing with their teacher.

Now that probably isn't in the students  best interest to argue with the teacher,  

but if the other students are saying,  yeah, keep going, you're doing great.

They're.

Egging him on.

They're egging that student on.

They're encouraging that student to keep arguing,  even though arguing isn't in his best interest.

Or let's say you're considering  doing something a little risky,  

like jumping off a high Cliff when  you don't know what's beneath you  

and maybe you're not really serious  about it, but the crowd eggs you on.

Oh, do it.

You can do it.

You should do it.

They're encouraging you, even though  it can have a really negative outcome.

The crowd egged them on to jump off the Cliff.

Now, most likely you won't use this in your  everyday vocabulary, but you'll commonly  

hear this on TV, in movies, or when you're  reading, so I wanted to share it with you.

You so you're not confused when you see this  

egg on and you have no idea  what they're talking about.

Now you do #4 to turn down.

When you turn something down, it  means you reject that something.

And we use this in the context  of an offer or an invitation.

For example, they offered her  the job, but she turned it down.

She said no to the job.

So.

Of course you can say she  rejected, but it's very common.

More common to say, she turned it down so  you can turn down something like a job offer.

You can also turn down an invitation from someone  

else, a social invitation or a  romantic invitation, for example.

I asked Marissa out, but she turned me down.

When you ask someone out, it means you invite  them to dinner or a coffee for romantic purposes.

I asked Marissa out.

But she turned me down.

She rejected my offer #5 to zoom  in or the opposite to zoom out.

If there are any photographers here, you already  know what this means because when you zoom in,  

the object becomes closer and when you  zoom out, the object becomes farther away.

And I'm sharing this with you because  everyone is meeting on video conference now.

When you're having a video conference,  

you have a camera that's focusing on you and  it's really important you have the correct zoom.

You don't want to be too close.

If you're too close to the  camera, you need to zoom out.

If you're too far, you need to zoom in.

So you might ask a colleague.

Hey, I can't see you very well.

Can you zoom in?

Or a colleague might tell  you your pictures all blurry.

You need to zoom out.

So now you know what that  means for your next video.

Call number six to wiggle out of.

This is a great one.

When you wiggle out of something,  you avoid a situation, a task,  

a or a responsibility that you don't really  want to do, and you avoid it in a cunning way.

So let's say that tomorrow you're  supposed to clean out the garage,  

and you don't really want to,  but your wife or your husband,  

your sister, your brother, whoever  wants you to clean out the garage.

Now, tomorrow, when you're supposed to clean  out that garage, maybe you get an urgent phone  

call just at the right moment, and you  have to go to work and finish something.

But you planned that phone call.

You planned that phone call to take place  right as you needed to clean the garage.

So you did that in a cunning  way, so you try to wiggle.

Out of.

Cleaning the garage.

So basically when you're asked to do  something and then you try to avoid  

it by creating a scenario where  you have another responsibility.

Or maybe a friend asks you to move, but you  tell them, oh, you have a back injury, so you  

hurt your back and now you can't help them move,  so you try to wiggle out of it #7 to hold up.

This is a must know phrasal  verb because we use it when  

you're delayed, and you're delayed  specifically while you're traveling.

This could be traveling on a flight or  a train, so a more long distance travel.

But it can also just be traveling from  

your office to another boardroom  or from your house to the car.

So it can be a very short distance  travel or a more longer travel as well.

For example, my kids always hold  me up when I'm trying to leave.

So you're trying to leave  the house and then your kids.

Mom, mom, I need this.

Help me find that.

Do this for me.

And they delay you.

They delay you when you're trying to leave.

You're trying to travel.

My kids always hold me up.

Now, we commonly use this in the passive form.

So you might have an appointment that  you're trying to get to and you're late.

And when you get to that appointment and you can  say, sorry, I'm late, I was held up to be held up.

I was held up by my kids.

Oh, I was held up #8 to hit it off.

This is a great one.

When you hit it off, it means you  have a very positive relationship  

with someone right from the first time.

You meet.

Them.

So let's say you have a new.

Coworker.

And and the first conversation you have,  you realize you have a lot in common.

You really like the person.

They're nice.

They're funny.

They like you.

The conversations going really well.

You can say wow we really hit it off, hit  it off that it is just our relationship.

We hit our relationship off but we always use it.

We really hit it off.

Now notice how I also said we we almost  always use this expression with the subject.

We my Co worker and I or we  my Co worker and I hit it off.

I would not say I hit it off with my Co worker.

That sounds unnatural.

We say we hit it off #9 to get through.

When you get through something,  it simply means you finish it.

But that something is is usually a chore or an  unpleasant task, something that isn't enjoyable.

For example, I have 10 reports I need  to get through by the end of the day.

I have 10 reports I need to  finish by the end of the day.

But when I use the phrasal verb get through,  

it implies there's going to  be some effort, some struggle.

I don't really enjoy the task #10 to freshen up.

When you freshen up, you  quickly improve your appearance.

So before you go into a meeting or to  a social event, you can freshen up.

You can go into the bathroom  and you can brush your hair.

You can put on fresh lipstick.

You can check your makeup.

Now, if you're a guy, maybe you put on  deodorant or Cologne, things like that.

So you quickly improve your appearance.

You freshen up.

So let's say you're going out for a nice dinner.

You might say, oh, just give  me 5 minutes to freshen up.

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To.

Take off this is used when a.

Flight leaves.

The ground.

For example, tomorrow my flight takes off at  7:00 AM or what time did your flight take off?

So this is another way of simply  saying, what time did your flight leave?

Now, we also use this phrasal verb to  talk about a person leaving a location.

So you might be at a party and it's getting late,  

you have an early meeting and  you say thanks for the party.

I'm going to take off, I'm going to leave.

Or someone might ask you, what  time did you take off last night?

What time did you leave?

Now take off is also used to  remove an item of clothing.

So at night, before you get into your  pajamas, you take off your clothes.

Right before you get into the  shower, you take off your clothes.

I can also take off my  makeup, which means to remove.

Or if it's really hot in the room, you might say,  

oh, it's so hot in here, I  need to take off my sweater.

Or when you.

You come into the house and it's cold out.

You take off your jacket, you take off your shoes,  

you take off your hat, you take off  your gloves, take off your sunglasses.

So you can take off an item of clothing,  

but you can also take off accessories  like rings, makeup, glasses as well.

Take off can also mean to become successful.

For example, after I improved my English  speaking skills, my career really took off.

My career became successful.

My career took off.

Or I could say overnight my YouTube channel  took off, My YouTube channel became successful.

So many different phrasal verbs would  take off, but they're all commonly used.

So make sure you learn all these  individual meanings to take after someone.

When you take after someone, you resemble  them in either personality or appearance,  

and this is most commonly  used with family members.

For example, it's very common for a son to take  after his dad, which means he looks like him.

They look very similar.

But you might also say Julie is so funny,  she really takes after Uncle Frank.

So maybe Uncle Frank is really funny.

He's always telling these hilarious jokes.

And then Julie is also really  funny, She takes after Uncle Frank.

So you can use this with personality  or appearance to take apart.

When you take something apart, you  disassemble it so it goes from being  

whole one complete item, and then you  disassemble it into individual parts.

So if your car isn't working, you might take apart  

the motor or take apart the engine to  try to figure out what the problem is.

You might also take apart a desk or  take apart a bed when you're getting  

rid of it when you're removing it from  your home, because it's easier to move  

when it's in individual parts rather  than one big structure to take back.

When you take something back, it means that you  return a purchased item to the store for a refund.

So let's say you bought a  pair of shoes at the store.

You come home and you realize they don't fit  very well, or you just don't really like them.

Well, you can take them back.

So you go to the store, you return the  shoes, and you get your money back.

Now, we only use this when you  physically go to the store,  

So with online purchases, we actually  don't use the phrasal verb take back.

So if you.

Order something from Amazon and you  don't like it and you want a refund.

We simply say I returned the shoes I bought from  Amazon or I sent back I sent back the shoes.

So just keep that in mind.

We only use take back when you  physically go to the store.

You can also take someone back, which means  you reunite a previous romantic relationship.

So let's say that Rob and Julie were a  couple last year, but then they broke up.

They ended their relationship,  but then Rob, he begs.

Julie, please take me back.

Please accept me again as your romantic partner.

Please take me back.

But Julie's friend might say, don't take Rob back.

Why would you take Rob back?

You shouldn't take Rob back to take on.

When you take on a project or a task, it simply  means that you accept that project or task.

For example, your boss might ask.

The team.

Who has time to take this on?

Who has time to take on this  new project or this new client?

And you might say, I can  take it on, I can take it on.

So you accept that responsibility for that job.

You can also take over a  responsibility, a project,  

a task, which means that you assume  responsibility from another person.

So let's say Julie took on the project, but then  Julie decided to go on a three-week vacation.

So your boss might ask you to take over.

So the responsibility goes from Julie to you.

Hey Maria, can you take over this  project while Julie's on vacation?

Or it can be.

Can you just take over this project so it can be  permanent, it becomes your project permanently, or  

it can just be a temporary situation while someone  is sick or on vacation to take someone out.

When you take someone out, it means  you invite them for an activity,  

such as having a meal together or going to the  movies together, but you pay for that activity.

For example, let's say it's your birthday.

Well, your husband, your best friend,  your mother, your sister might.

Take you out.

For dinner, which means they invite you  for dinner and they also pay for dinner.

That's the important part.

Or they might take you out for a nice night at  the movies, and you go to the movies together.

Or maybe to the amusement park  so you can do other activities.

But it's mainly used with meals.

So maybe your friend says,  why would you take Rob back?

Why would you take Rob back?

He didn't even take you out for your birthday.

He didn't invite you?

Out.

For dinner and then pay for that meal.

You can take up a new hobby or activity.

Which means you.

Start that new hobby or activity.

You could tell your friends  I decided to take up karate,  

which means you decided to start karate  lessons as a new hobby or activity.

Or your friend might say, I  didn't know you took up dancing.

I didn't know you started  dancing as a hobby or activity.

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Feel free to take a break, but we're going to  move on and learn 30 more common phrasal verbs.

Remember, you'll learn a group  of 10, you'll complete a quiz,  

and you'll move on to the next group.

Let's get started to run one out of something.

This is when you use all of something  and therefore have none left.

We commonly use this with  food items, for example milk.

We ran out of milk.

This means you have no milk  left because you used it all.

Now notice ran.

That's the past simple of the verb run.

The conjugations are run, ran, run.

You can also say we've run  out of milk in the present  

perfect because it's a past action  with a connection to the present.

In a business context you might  say we're running out of time.

So here notice in the present continuous we're  running out of and then the something is time.

It means you're in the process  of having no time left.

So if the meeting ends at 11:00 and right now  it's 10:50, you can say we're running out of time.

We need to end the meeting in 10 minutes.

You can also use this with ideas.

We're running out of ideas or patience.

I'm running out of patience,  

which means I'm in the process of  having no patience left to bring up.

This means to raise a topic for conversation  or to raise a child, for example.

He brought up an interesting point at the meeting,  which means he raised an interesting point.

He shared an interesting point.

He brought up an interesting point at the meeting.

Here, brought is the past simple of bring Now.

Remember, this also means to raise a child.

When you raise a child, it  means you care for and nurture.

Nurture a child from the time that child  is an infant until that child is an adult.

That is, to raise a child.

For example, she's bringing  up three children on her own.

So this means she's raising three children on  her own to look after someone or something.

This means to care for someone or  something for a period of time.

So generally we don't use this if you're  caring for someone or something permanently.

Like when you bring up a child, you're  caring for that child permanently.

But if you're looking after a child,  

it sounds like you're doing it  temporarily for a period of time.

For example, my son's 16, so he looks after  his younger brothers while I'm at work.

So my son who is 16, cares  for his younger brothers,  

but he's not bringing them up because  he's not doing that permanently.

He's caring for them for a period  of time, the time while I'm at work,  

so maybe 2 hours a day between after  school and when I get home from work.

My oldest child, who's 16, cares for my  younger children, his younger brothers.

We also use this with things to care for things.

For example, can you look after  my plans while I'm on vacation?

If someone asks you to look after  something for a period of time while  

they're on vacation or while they're  traveling, they're asking you to.

Care.

For it.

So that's a lot of responsibility for you.

You better not kill my plans  to take off this means.

To.

Remove something commonly  from your body or to leave  

in the sense of removing something from your body.

When someone comes to your house, you might say  please take off your shoes before coming in.

So you want to keep your floors nice and clean,  

so you ask them to take off their shoes to  remove their shoes now in the sense of to leave.

We commonly use this with flights.

For example, my flight was supposed to  take off at noon, but it was delayed.

So if my flight's delayed,  

it means it's now taking off later  than scheduled, later than expected.

And when your flight takes off,  that's when your flight leaves.

It leaves the ground.

It leaves the airport.

So you can use this one every single  time you're traveling and daily to  

talk about removing something  from your body to turn on.

I'm sure you know this one, but just to make sure,  

this means to activate a  device to turn on a device.

This is something that I ask Siri to do daily.

And you might ask Siri or Alexa or  whoever your personal assistant is,  

Hey Siri, turn on the lights.

Or you might say, can you  turn on the air conditioning?

It's really hot in here, so think of all  the different devices you have in your home,  

in your office, and even on you everywhere you go.

And you can use turn on to mean activate.

And if turn on means to activate,  well then what's the opposite?

What's the phrasal verb for?

To deactivate a device?

Of course it's turn off.

Turn off a device.

Deactivate a device again.

Something you can ask your  personal assistant to do.

Hey Siri, turn off the music.

And this is also something that parents have to  remind their children to do quite frequently.

For example, make sure you turn  off the lights before you leave.

Get up.

This is one you can of course use every  single day, because when you get up,  

it means you wake up in the morning.

For example, I get up at 5:50  AM every day except Sundays.

On Sundays I get up at 7:00 AM.

So I sleep in on Sundays and oh I.

Enjoy.

That what about you?

What time do you get up?

Share that in the comments we also use get out  to mean to rise from a lying or sitting position.

So let's say you work in an office that  has some really comfortable couches and  

you might just be relaxing and lying on the couch.

But then your Co worker says quick  get up, Rob's coming and rob.

Is.

Your boss.

And you don't want your boss to  see you just lying on this couch  

when you should be at your desk working, right?

So in this context, it doesn't mean  that you were sleeping on the couch.

It simply means you were in a  lying or even a sitting position.

So we talked about how take off is used  to remove something from your body.

So if you're hot, you can take off your sweater.

But what if you're?

Cold.

What's the phrasal verb to  add something to your body?

Do you know if to put on?

To put on is.

To.

Wear clothing or accessories so you  can think of them as adding them to.

Your.

Body.

To put on also means to apply something  like makeup or sunscreen to put on.

For example, you could say  to a friend it's chili out.

You should put on a sweater.

Chili means a little cold, so maybe your friend is  going out in a T-shirt, but you say it's chilio.

You should put on a sweater to give up.

Hopefully a phrasal verb that isn't  in your vocabulary to give up,  

because this is used when you  stop trying to do something.

For example, don't give up just  because you made a few mistakes.

That's part of the learning process.

I'm sure some days you feel  like giving up learning English,  

which would mean stop learning  English but don't give up.

However, there are some things you should give up,  

like a bad habit, and give up is  also used when you stop a bad habit.

For example, you should give up smoking, which  means you should stop smoking permanently,  

Stop smoking, so you should quit smoking.

You should give up smoking permanently,  stop smoking, quit smoking.

But you shouldn't give up learning  English just because you make a  

mistake or just because it's taking  a little longer than you expected.

Don't give up to look for.

When you look for someone or something, you  simply try to find to locate someone or something.

For example, I looked for you at  the conference, but it was busy.

This means I tried to find someone,  a friend, a coworker, someone I know.

I tried to find someone at a conference.

I looked for her or him, but I didn't find that  

person because there were too  many people at the conference.

The conference was busy, of course.

We use this with everyday objects like our keys,  

our phone, our purse, even  something simple like a pen.

Can you help me look for my keys?

This is another way of saying,  can you help me find my keys?

Can you help me locate my keys  because I don't know where they are?

Can you help me look for my keys?

So these are the 10 phrasal verbs that  you absolutely must know to understand  

native speakers and to sound fluent  and natural and advanced in English.

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Did this when you perform or explain  something using actions and gestures.

For example, right now I'm acting out.

It's raining.

Using my actions and my gestures, I'm teaching  you this one because when you don't speak a  

language fluently, often we act out what we  mean to help the other person understand.

For example, I couldn't think of the  word for sunrise, so I acted it out.

How you're going to act out sunrise?

I'm not as.

Sure you can try though.

Another example.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Could you try acting it out?

This could be a smart way for you to understand  what someone else is saying #2 to belt out.

I love this one because it means to sing loudly.

For example, the crowd belted out  the national anthem before the game.

So the crowd sang the national anthem loudly.

They belted it out.

And here's another example that is true for me.

I love driving alone because I  can belt out my favorite songs.

I can sing those songs very loudly  #3 to catch up with someone.

This is a must know phrasal verb.

This is when you meet someone after a period  of time to find out what they've been doing.

So let's say you and your friend  haven't seen each other for one month.

Well, you don't know what your friend  has been doing for that one month.

So you could text your friend  and say we need to catch up.

Are you free tomorrow?

This is a very common way that two native  speakers will arrange a social gathering.

You could also simply say let's catch up soon and  this means let's meet soon so I can find out what.

You've.

Been doing and you can find out what  I've been doing since the last time  

we saw each other #4 to grind away at something.

This is when you work on some something  for a long time or with a lot of effort.

For example, I had to grind  away at my taxes all weekend.

So this means I worked on my taxes, but because  I said grind away at, you know, it took me a  

long time and a lot of effort, you could also  say I've been grinding away at this report.

All week.

But it's still not done.

So you've spent a lot of time on this report.

You've put in a lot of effort,  but it's still not done.

You've been grinding away at it.

#5 To naw at this means to  trouble, worry, or annoy someone.

First of all, notice that silent G naw naw.

It starts with a an N sound not to naw.

For example.

His text message has been gnawing at me all day,  

so his text message has been troubling  me, worrying me or annoying me.

You don't exactly know which one it is, but  based on context and based on my emotion,  

my facial emotion, you would know his text  message has been gnawing at me all day.

Or let's say you were in a meeting and  your coworker said something negative  

about you in front of everyone  and it's been bothering you.

Well, your friend could say don't  let his comment gnaw at you.

Don't let his comment bother you or annoy you.

Number six, to pull oneself together.

This means to become calm or to  regain control of your emotions.

Calm down, calm down, calm down.

So let's say your coworker made that  angry or rude or mean comment towards  

you in front of everyone else  and you became very emotional.

You became very upset or  very agitated or very angry.

Even your friend could say pull  yourself together to let you know  

you need to regain control of your emotions  because you're being too upset, too angry.

We also commonly use this in the  imperative pull yourself together.

So notice with the imperative you start  with the base verb pull yourself together.

You need to pull yourself together.

Both of those are very common.

And then an hour later, your friend could  say, hey, I was calling you, where were you?

And you could say, oh, I went for a  walk alone, to pull myself together,  

to regain control of my emotions and  simply to become calm, #7 to rack up  

this means to acquire a lot of something,  and that something is generally negative.

For example, I racked up a lot of  parking tickets while I was on vacation.

So maybe you're in a new city and you're not  familiar with the parking rules and regulations,  

so you racked up a lot of parking tickets.

Parking tickets are, of course, negative.

Or you could say when I was a student,  I racked up a lot of student debt.

Again, student debt is of course  a negative and you racked it up.

You acquired it.

#8 To rub off on this is when a quality  or a characteristic is passed from one  

person to another person, for example, her  passion and enthusiasm rubbed off on me.

So this means my friend was being very  passionate and enthusiastic and because of  

that I became very passionate and enthusiastic,  so her passion and enthusiasm rubbed off on me.

But we also use this with negative  qualities and characteristics.

For example, don't let Frank's  anxiety rub off on you.

So Frank is always anxious, and he's sharing  his anxieties in public with his team.

If you're not careful, his anxieties could rub  off on you, which means you will become anxious  

simply because Frank is anxious and you're  in the same room as Frank #9 to slip up.

This means to make a careless error or mistake.

For example, I can't believe I slipped  up and told her about her surprise party.

So there was a surprise party  being planned for this person,  

and because it's a surprise, you're  not supposed to let the person know.

But I slipped up and I told her about the party.

I made a mistake and it was a careless mistake.

I should have known better.

Another example, you purchased  1000 units instead of 100 units.

That was a real slip up.

What do you notice here?

A slip up here is being used as the  noun form to simply mean a mistake,  

a careless mistake, and finally #10 to talk down.

This is when you try to make  something sound less important,  

less important than it really is in reality.

For example, the CEO tried to  talk down the recent layoffs.

Layoffs is when you to fire people from a  company because there is no longer work for them.

So that sounds like the  company could be in trouble.

But if you try to talk down the recent layoffs,  

it means you try to make them sound less  severe, less important than they really are.

Or remember when I accidentally ordered  1000 units instead of 100 units?

Well, I could say I tried to talk down my slip up.

Remember here slip up is being used as the  noun form of the phrasal verb to slip up.

And it means a careless mistake.

I tried to talk down my slip  up, my careless mistake.

So I tried to make my mistake the fact I  ordered 10 times as many units as needed.

I tried to make that sound like  not a big deal, not a big mistake.

I tried to talk down my slip up and now you have  the top 10 phrasal verbs added to your vocabulary.

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Let's do it to dish out.

This simply means to criticize.

So when you criticize someone or something,  you say something negative about.

It.

For example, she.

Really.

Dished it out to Tom at the meeting.

She really criticized Tom at the meeting.

Now notice, I said.

Dished it.

Out.

What's the IT?

the IT represents the criticism she dished  out the criticism she dished it out to Tom.

And we always use this expression with  criticism, so you don't need to specify that it.

I'm sharing this phrasal verb with you because  we have a very common in expression in English.

You can dish it out, but you can't take it.

You can dish it out, which means  you freely give criticism to others,  

but you can't take it, Which means  if somebody tries to criticize you,  

you do not accept that you  become very upset or very angry.

So if someone is being very  critical, you might say,  

well, you can dish it out, but can you take it?

Can you receive the criticism that you're giving?

It's a way to remind someone that  maybe you shouldn't criticize others.

You can dish it out, but you can't  take it #2 to muddle through.

This is when you do or achieve something  accidentally without a specific plan.

For example, I muddled through making the cake.

So maybe I had no idea how to make this cake.

I didn't know the procedure.

I didn't feel prepared.

I muddled through making the cake,  but it was actually quite delicious.

So sometimes when you muddle through something the  

result isn't very positive because  you don't actually have a plan.

Other times it can.

Be positive.

In the end, #3 to nerd out.

Oh, I love this one when you nerd.

Out.

On something, it means you discuss  it in great detail, greater detail.

Than the average.

Person would normally do.

For example, I can nerd out  on sentence structure all day.

I can discuss sentence structure, English  sentence structure all day, but my friends who  

are native English speakers have no interest  in discussing English sentence structure.

To them, that is boring.

But to me as an English teacher, and  most likely to you as an English learner,  

we can nerd out on the English language all day.

I can also nerd out on plants.

Talking about plants, different  types of plants, looking at plants.

I really love plants as well,  but the average person probably  

doesn't want to discuss it  in as much detail as I do.

What about you?

What's something that you could nerd out on?

Nerd out on this specific topic.

All day.

Share that in the comments, #4 to stick around.

This is a very common phrasal verb and it simply  means to remain in a place for a period of time.

Let's say you just finished dinner with  a friend at a restaurant and you drove,  

but your friend took the bus.

So you can just get in your car and leave.

But your friend has to wait until the bus comes.

So you could say, oh don't worry,  I'll stick around until the bus comes.

I'll stay with you at this specific location, the  restaurant or the bus stop, until the bus comes.

Or let's say you're in the  mall and it's raining outside.

You might say, well, let's just  stick around until it stops raining.

So let's stay at this specific  location until it stops raining.

You'll absolutely use this in your  daily speech and hear native speakers,  

using this one all the time #5 to wash up.

This simply means to clean your hands, to  wash wash your hands and or to wash your face.

So before dinner you could say,  oh, I just need to wash up.

And most likely you're going to wash your hands.

And I commonly say this in the  evening before I watch a movie.

I could say to my husband, oh just give me 5  minutes to wash up before we start the movie.

And for me it's to wash my face because I love  taking off my makeup before I watch a movie.

It's a lot more comfortable.

So women might use the wash up  for our face more frequently,  

so it can be for both hands, hands  and face number six to lock up.

This is when you securely close your windows and  doors or entrances to your house or building.

So it's another way of simply saying lock.

For example, make sure you lock up before  bed, and in that case it's in your home.

And that's of course good advice.

But if you work in a building,  

someone is likely responsible for  locking up at the end of the work day.

So one person might be responsible for  making sure that all the entrances to  

that building are securely closed or locked.

So for example, Sally is responsible  for locking up #7 to Yammer on.

This is when you talk  continuously in an annoying way.

For example, I ran into Kate at the mall and  she yammered on for hours and I missed my bus.

So I ran into Kate.

I saw Kate, but I wasn't expecting to see her.

I saw her accidentally.

I ran into Kate at the mall and  she yammered on oh hi Jennifer,  

I'd love to tell you about my vacation.

And then 10 minutes later, she's  still talking about her vacation  

and she doesn't realize that I'm not  that interested in her vacation or  

I'm just busy and need to leave  to Yammer on #8 to mouse off.

When you mouse off to someone, you speak to that  person in a disrespectful way or in an angry way.

So this is something that kids,  especially teenagers, do to their parents.

And when I was a teenager, if I moused  off to my parents, I would be grounded.

When you're grounded, this means that  certain privileges are taken away from you.

So.

If you're grounded, maybe you can't go to the  movies with your friends, you can't use the car,  

you can't use the computer privileges  you would normally have in the house.

You're grounded.

You're grounded.

And as adults, we also don't want to mouse off  to certain people like our boss or an authority  

figure like a police officer is definitely  not a good idea to mouse off #9 to Max out.

When you Max something out, it means  you take that something to a limit.

For example, I maxed out my  credit cards on vacation.

So your credit card has a limit,  maybe $10,000 if you maxed out that.

Credit card.

It means that you spent $10,000, the maximum  amount, the limit of that credit card.

Likely not the best idea.

Then finally #10 to load up on.

When you load up on something, it means  you consume a lot of that something,  

or you purchase a lot of that  something for a specific purpose.

So let's say you're an athlete right before a  race or a competition, you might load up on carbs.

Carbs are carbohydrates, energy for your body.

So you want to consume a lot of carbs.

Jim loaded up on carbs before the rate.

Or you could say we loaded up on  toilet paper because it was on sale.

So we purchased a large amount of  toilet paper because it was on sale.

Now you have the top 10 phrasal  verbs added to your vocabulary.

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Now we're going to focus on the verb get,  

and you're going to learn 40 common  phrasal verbs with the verb get.

And there'll be a quiz at the end.

Let's get started right now.

To get ahead, this means to progress,  so to make progress towards something.

And we most commonly use this in a  career setting or academic setting.

For example, if you want to get  ahead, you need fluent English.

Would you agree with that?

Put that in the comments.

If you want to get ahead, you need fluent English.

Now notice how I didn't specify get ahead in.

What if you want to get ahead at work  in your career, so don't forget that.

But you can also just say if you want to get ahead  to get along with most students, know this one.

Do you know this one?

When you get along with someone, it means you  have a good relationship with that person.

I really get along with my boss,  but we commonly use this in the.

Negative.

I don't get along with my boss, so you can  use it in both the positive or the negative.

So which describes you I get.

Along with my boss.

I.

Don't get along with my boss to get away.

This means to escape, so you  can use this in two contexts.

The criminal got away, so that  means he escaped the robber.

Got.

Away.

He stole my car and he got away.

He escaped.

But we also use this more in the sense  of to escape from your your daily life,  

the difficulties of your daily life.

I.

Really need to.

Get away work has been so busy  I don't get along with my boss.

I need to get away.

Another common phrasal verb with get  away is to get away with something,  

and that something is negative.

For example, she got away with the crime.

This means she wasn't punished for the crime, so  she did something wrong, but she got away with it.

She got away with stealing the car.

Notice that verb ING with stealing  the car to get off lately.

This is when you are punished for something,  

but you're punished less  severely than you anticipated.

So maybe you forgot to submit a report  at work, but you got off lightly.

Your boss didn't fire you, but they  did remove you from the account.

So you were punished, but you were  punished less severely than you expected.

We also use this more in a criminal context.

She stole the car, but she got off lightly,  

so maybe she didn't go to prison, she only  had to do community service to get back.

This is used to say that you return  to your original starting point.

So let's say you're at home, but then you go  to the store and then you return back home.

So now you can say I got back at 7:00.

What time did you get back?

Now you can specify the place.

What time did you get back home?

Back to the office?

Oh, I got back around 7:00.

We commonly use this with your vacations.

What time did you get back  from your trip to Italy?

Oh, I got back on Tuesday.

You returned home from Italy.

There's also the phrasal verb to get  back to some someone, you might say.

Oh.

I.

Really need to get back to John.

When you get back to someone it  means you respond to that person.

So if I say I need to get back to John, it means  that John contacted me but I have not replied.

So maybe he asked me a question and  I have not answered his question.

I need to get back to John.

Or you, John might say, when  are you going to get back to me?

When are you going to respond to my question?

When you get back into something,  

it means you continue doing something  that you stopped for a period of time.

So let's say you decided to learn how  to play guitar or piano and you play  

guitar every week for months and months  and and then you stop playing guitar.

You get very busy at work, but  then work is no longer busy.

So you say, oh, I need to get back into guitar.

I need to get back into my guitar lessons.

So maybe you could use this  with your language lessons.

I need to get back into my English language class.

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Now let's continue on with our next get  phrasal verb to get back at someone.

This is used for revenge.

So if you didn't get back to John, which  means you didn't reply to John and you  

didn't answer his question, maybe  John will try to get back at you.

He'll try to get revenge on you.

So maybe he'll tell everyone  that you're not very helpful  

and that's how he gets back at you  to get behind someone or something.

This is when you support someone or something.

So let's say your company has a new policy  on their dress code and you like the policy.

You can say I can really get behind that policy.

You support that policy to get by.

This is when you have just  enough resources to survive.

We most commonly use this with financial  resources, so you might say with inflation.

I can barely get by.

So it means you can pay your bills,  pay your mortgage, buy groceries,  

but just enough at the end of the month you have.

One or two?

Dollars.

Left.

In your account I'm getting by.

To get into.

Trouble I'm.

Sure you do this.

All the time.

When you get into trouble, it just means  you enter that situation where you're  

doing something you're not supposed  to be doing, which is the trouble.

So kids get into.

Trouble all the time.

That's why you don't leave your kids at  home without an adult to supervise them,  

because they're going to get.

Into trouble.

They're going to right on all the  walls with crayon or eat all the.

Cookies in the.

Fridge, They're going to get into trouble.

To get on this is when you board,  

which means to enter certain vessels,  certain methods of transportation.

So you can get on a plane,  a train, a boat, or a bus.

I got on the plane, You entered the  plane, you boarded the plane to get  

on is also used as an expression to say  that someone is old or has become very.

Old.

So you might say, my grandma is getting on.

Which means my grandma is now quite old.

She's become very old.

My grandma's getting on, so she  has difficulty getting on a plane.

Now what's the opposite of on?

I'm on the plane, I got on the plane.

So now I need to get off the plane.

And remember, you only get off  certain methods of transportation.

Planes, trains, boats and buses.

This is my stop.

I need to get off the bus, get off the train for  vehicles, cars, vans or trucks you get in and get.

Out of.

I got in my car, I got out of my  car so don't confuse those two.

We also use get in when you enter a  room in a building or enter a house  

or a location so this is very common at work.

A Co worker could ask you  oh what time did you get in?

They mean what time did you enter the office.

So you can also use it to mean what  time did you start your work day.

Because when you enter the office  building, technically you've started work.

So what time did you get in?

Is another way of saying  what time did you start work.

Now in this case, although  the opposite of in is out,  

we have an expression to get off,  which means to end work for the day.

So someone could ask you, oh,  what time do you get off today?

What time do you usually get off?

What time are you getting off tomorrow?

This means what time do you finish?

Work.

Do you end?

Work just for the day to get out is  also used as an expression of disbelief.

So let's say your friend  tells you I won the lottery.

Get out.

Get out.

Get out of.

Here, get out of town.

So you can add get out of here.

Or less commonly but still  common, get out of town.

It's just to show that I can't believe it.

What?

Get out, get out.

So if your friend says something very shocking  or surprising, I'm moving to Antarctica.

Get out.

Get out of.

Town Why?

Why are you doing that?

When you get out of something  or get out of doing something,  

it means you avoid doing something unpleasant.

So I could say I need to get out of cleaning  the garage because that's unpleasant and I.

Don't want to?

Do it to get together.

This is when people organize socially.

They join each other socially.

So I might ask, what time are  we getting together tonight?

So what time are we going to meet each  other, join each other and have dinner?

Have a cup of coffee?

Go.

For a walk.

Do something social now.

If you specify the noun you  need with what time are you  

getting together with your friends tonight?

You probably know this one to get up What time?

Do you get?

Up.

This is when you leave your bed in the  morning, first thing in the morning.

So what time do you wake up?

This is when you open your eyes, but then  get up is when you actually leave your bed.

So I wake up at 6:00 AM, but  I don't get up until 6:30.

But how about this one?

Get up to what did you get up up to last night?

This is a common way of simply  asking what someone did.

Oh, what did you get up to last night?

Oh, not much.

I watched a movie.

We also used this one though to imply  that someone is doing something wrong.

My kids are always getting up to no.

Good.

This is the same.

Thing as getting.

Into trouble, but in a general context,  oh, what did you get up to last night?

It's What did you do?

Last night.

To get across.

This is to.

Communicate your ideas successfully.

So as a non-native speaker you might say I  have a hard time getting my ideas across.

I have a hard time communicating  successfully and if you have a hard  

time getting your ideas across, someone  might ask you what are you getting at?

What are you getting at?

This is another way of saying what  are you trying to communicate what.

Do you mean?

So if you're trying to explain something  but the other person doesn't understand,  

they can say what are you getting at.

Now, to get at can also mean to successfully reach  something, or find something or obtain something.

So let's say I have a shelf and I have a hat on a  very high shelf I might say I can't get at my hat.

I can't reach my hat.

To get rid of this is when you throw away  so permanently remove unwanted items.

So remember I said I wanted to get out of cleaning  

my garage because there's so  many things I need to get?

Rid of.

There's so many unwanted things in my  garage that I want to permanently remove.

So maybe once a year you can go through  your entire house and get rid of things.

Get rid of unwanted things To  get wound up about something  

is when you get really angry  about something, so let's say.

Your.

Father doesn't like politics in general,  

so every time he sees something in the  news about politicians, he gets wound up.

He gets really angry, but you might say.

To your dad.

Get.

Over.

It get over.

It.

To get over something is when you tell  someone they shouldn't have strong feelings  

towards something else, and those strong  feelings are usually negative feelings.

So if your dad gets really wound up about  politics, you can say, oh, just get over it.

It's not a big deal.

You can, of course, get over someone.

Do you know this one?

When you get over someone, it means you no  longer have romantic feelings for that person.

So after my divorce, it took me  years to get over my husband.

It took me years to stop having  romantic feelings towards my husband.

Now someone could say.

Get.

Over it.

Stop being upset about the situation  that you're no longer with your husband.

But that might be a little.

Insensitive.

You can also get over an illness, which  means you recover from an illness.

It took me weeks to get over my cold.

It took me weeks to recover from  my cold to get around this is.

How you?

Travel within an area.

So if you're a tourist, you might Google What's  the best way to get around New York City?

And of course, it's not by car.

You don't want to get around by car  because the traffic is terrible,  

so walking is the best way to get around.

Or taking the subway is the best  way to get around New York City.

When you get around to  something or to doing something,  

it means you finally do something  after not doing it for a long.

Of time.

So let's say I was trying to get out of cleaning  

the garage because I didn't really want  to get rid of all that unwanted stuff.

But I finally got around to cleaning the garage.

So I finally cleaned the garage  after a long time of not cleaning.

The garage.

To get it together is when you  take control of your life or your.

Emotions.

So let's say your friend is really upset  because she broke up with her husband  

and and she has not gotten over him and you  want to tell your friend to just get over it,  

but instead you tell your friend,  get it together, get it together.

You need to take control of your  emotions because your friend is crying.

All.

The time or she's really upset.

She's really Moody, angry,  not pleasant to be around.

And you tell your friend  you need to get it together,  

which is a little bit of tough  love, but sometimes it's necessary.

There are many phrasal verbs with get  through that have different meanings.

When you get through something, it means you  endure or deal with a difficult situation.

It was really difficult for me to get  through my father's death, so my father died.

Obviously that's a difficult situation.

Hopefully you don't say get over it  because that would be very insensitive,  

but I had a hard time getting  through my father's death.

So you can use this in a personal situation.

You can use it in a work situation as well.

I don't get along with my boss, so I have  a hard time getting through our meetings.

I have a hard time dealing with our meetings  because I don't get along with my boss.

When you get through something, it can also mean  

that you successfully finished something  that was very difficult or time consuming.

I finally got through the report.

So you finished it, but it took you a really.

Long time.

It was difficult when you get.

Through.

To someone, it means that you successfully contact  

them after numerous attempts  of trying to contact them.

So let's say I needed to get back to John.

I needed to respond to John, but every  time I called John, I got his voicemail.

I could say I'm having a hard  time getting through to John,  

so I can't get back to John  because I can't get through to him.

But we also used to get through  to someone when you're able to  

communicate something to someone in  a way that they, they understand it.

So I told my friend that she shouldn't quit her  

job and I explained all the reasons  why and I finally got through to her.

So I finally made her understand  why she shouldn't quit her job.

Your head is probably spinning  right now with all of.

These.

Phrasal verbs with get, but all you need is some  practice, practice, practice, and repetition.

So let's do that right now with a quiz so you  have a chance to review and practice these.

Get phrasal verbs.

None.

You already have at least 150  phrasal verbs in your vocabulary.

I've.

Already.

Lost count so.

Let's.

Keep going.

This is your final section, and because you're  so advanced with phrasal verbs, I'm going to.

Quiz you.

1st.

So you're going to complete  a quiz, and then don't worry,  

I'll explain all the phrasal verbs in detail,  and then you'll complete that same quiz again.

And I promise your score will greatly improve  from from the first quiz to the second quiz.

So let's do that now.

Question 1, the phrasal verb used to  invite someone on a romantic date, is now.

I'm only going to give you 3 seconds  for each question, so hit pause,  

take as much time as you need, and when  you're ready, hit play to see the answer the.

Phrasal verb.

Is.

To ask out question.

Two, if you like a genre of music,  you can say I'm really country music.

I'm really into country music.

Remember, I'm going to explain  every single phrasal verb in detail,  

so don't worry if this test is difficult #3.

If a movie made you sad, you can  say that movie really Me Down.

That movie really brought me down #4.

If you think someone should  be happier, you can say cheer.

Cheer up, cheer up #5 Do you have time  to the dry cleaning on your way home?

Do you have time to pick up number?

6.

You see that box?

Can you at the post office?

Can you drop it off #7?

We ended up at home.

We ended up staying at home #8,  

which phrasal verb is used to reject  someone or something to turn down #9.

When you complete a form, you can  use both fill in and fill out.

This is true #10 How did you that Maria was fired?

How did you find out?

So how did you do with that quiz?

Was it easy or difficult?

Share your score in the comments and now I'll  

explain every phrasal verb in  detail with example sentences.

Number one to ask someone out.

Now pay attention to the sentence structure  because notice here I'm using someone.

You only ask someone out,  you don't ask something out.

And here's the reason why.

When you ask someone out, it's to invite them on  a romantic evening together, also known as a date.

So to ask someone out, you invite them on a date.

A date is a romantic evening spent with someone.

Of course it doesn't have to be an evening,  

it could be a morning coffee date  or an afternoon date as well.

But I just said evening because most  of the time it is in the evening.

So let me give you an example sentence.

Why hasn't Jim asked Maria out yet?

He's obviously into her.

So notice here, why hasn't Jim asked Maria out?

Ask someone out or someone is Maria.

Now of course you need the  subject who's doing the action.

So Jim is inviting Maria on a date.

A date is always romantic.

Right Now, Maria could say no.

And we're going to talk about that  later on in one of our phrasal verbs.

So let me give you that example again.

Why hasn't Jim asked Maria out yet?

He's obviously into her now.

You might be wondering,  Jennifer, what does that mean?

He's obviously into her.

Well, that's our next phrasal verb.

To be into someone.

To be into someone.

Now here I'll point out that  you can also be into something.

But first, let's talk about to be into someone.

When you're into someone, I'm sure  you notice based on the context,  

but it means to like someone romantically.

Now, the context is really important because I'm  going to give you a musician who I'm really into.

I'm really into Jack Johnson.

Now when I say that, oh, I'm  really into Jack Johnson.

I don't like Jack Johnson romantically,  although he is pretty cute I guess,  

but I don't like him romantically,  but I really like his music.

So if you use into someone, it  depends on the context, but there is.

This.

Meaning of liking.

And for the most part, that liking is romantic.

So if I said Jim is into Maria,  he likes her romantically.

But if I'm talking about being  into a celebrity or a musician,  

an actor, it's possible that I just like  them, but not necessarily romantically.

So keep that in mind.

Now remember I said you  could also be into something.

Now in this case, we're talking about liking  something and it's usually an activity or a hobby.

So I was really into Jack Johnson when I was  really into playing ukulele and playing guitar.

Jack Johnson is an amazing musician.

He plays guitar and he plays ukulele,  

so I was really into him and mainly when I  was into playing ukulele and playing guitar.

Those are two activities I don't really do  much anymore simply because I don't have time.

It isn't a priority for me to do those  activities right now, at this stage in my life.

Although one day I would definitely like  

to do them again now so you could  talk about any hobby or activity.

Oh, I'm really into going hiking.

I'm really into playing video games.

So we use this with hobbies and activities, mainly  our next phrasal verb, to bring someone down.

To bring someone down is to make someone unhappy.

But there's that transition, because that  person was happy, and then something happened  

to bring them down, and now they're not happy, or  they're at least less happy than they were before.

So I could say that movie really brought me down.

Now notice.

Here the my subject is.

The.

Movie.

The movie brought me down.

I could also use a person.

My boss brought me down, so something  or someone can bring someone down.

That movie brought me down, so I was happy.

And then I watched the movie and  now I'm not happy or I'm less happy,  

probably because the movie  was very sad or depressing.

Something like that, #4 to cheer up.

So you can think of this as the opposite.

To cheer someone up is to make them happier.

Now we commonly use this in the imperative.

Cheer up.

Cheer up, Julie.

Cheer up.

Don't be sad.

Cheer up.

So we commonly use this in the imperative,  but you can use it in other ways.

For example, I could say I took my  friend out to lunch to cheer her up.

To cheer her up.

So that's the the reason why  I wanted to make her happier.

To cheer her up #5 to pick  someone or something up.

This is one of the most common phrasal verbs.

You probably know it, but did you  know you can also pick something up?

You pick someone up and  you also pick something up.

And that's when you take an object or a  person from one location to another location.

So of course you might know it  in the sense of I pick my kids  

up after school or I pick my  husband up after work, right?

That's probably how you know it.

But you can use it with a something.

Maybe your husband could call you  and say, oh hey, can you pick milk?

Up.

On your way home, can you pick milk up?

So you're going to go to a location,  

the store, get milk and take it  to another location, your home.

Can you pick milk up on your way home?

It's very common to get a call from someone and  they ask you, oh, hey, can you pick this up?

Can you pick this up on your way home?

And that something is a grocery  item or something for your home.

So now you know how to use it  with a someone and a something.

And what's the opposite of to pick someone up?

Well, it's to drop someone off.

And you can also drop something off.

When you drop someone or something off, it's to  leave someone or something at a specific location.

So of course you could say I  drop my husband off at work.

I dropped my friend off at.

The.

Airport.

Now you might also ask someone can you  drop this letter off on your way to work?

So they take the letter and they leave  it somewhere in a different location,  

the post office or a mailbox.

Can you drop this letter off on your way to work?

#7 to end up, to end up is  a very useful phrasal verb.

We use it to say that you eventually do  something or eventually decide something.

So you might say I ended up asking Julie out.

I ended up asking Julie out.

Who is our first example.

I can't remember.

Oh, it wasn't Julie.

It was Jim and Maria.

So let me give that again.

Jim ended up asking Maria out.

So remember before I said why  hasn't Jim asked Maria out yet?

So now remember to end up, that's  to eventually do something.

So after a period of time.

So Jim ended up asking Maria  out, but she turned him down.

Remember, I said at the beginning.

I'm going to teach.

You a phrasal.

Verb.

If Maria, I was going to say Julie again.

If Maria says no, well,  that's to turn someone down.

That's our next phrasal  verb, to turn someone down.

Now, you can also turn something down.

Can you think of something  that you might say no to?

Hmm, about a job offer.

Something like that.

So to turn.

Someone down to turn something down  is when you receive an invitation  

or a proposal to do something  and you say no, you decline.

You refuse, You reject.

You.

Say no.

So Maria turned Jim down.

Now you might also say I  was turned down for the job.

I was turned down.

Now you could turn that into an active sentence.

They turned me down.

I was turned down by the company.

They turned me down South.

In this specific phrasal verb, it  is commonly used in the passive,  

so I would get comfortable with the passive, but  you can use it in the active of course as well.

#9 to fill in or to fill.

Out.

Forms.

OK, so notice here I gave you 2 prepositions.

I know students get confused.

What's the difference  between fill in and fill out?

There is no difference.

So specifically with forms, that's the  only time that there is no difference.

When you're entering information into  a form, you're filling in that form.

You're also filling out that form.

It doesn't matter which preposition you use.

And honestly, I use both of them interchangeably,  so I just change between fill in, fill out.

I use both, and you can too.

So if you go to an office,  they might say after you.

Fill.

In this form or after you fill out  this form, drop it off at reception.

Notice.

Drop it off at reception.

So take it to reception and leave it there.

Drop it off at reception.

Our final phrasal verb to find out, To  find out is when you understand something,  

you learn something or you discover something.

So maybe going back to our character Jim.

So maybe Jim could say, how did you  find out that Maria turned me down?

So maybe Jim is a little embarrassed  He thought this was just a secret.

Nobody knew.

But then a friend tried to cheer him up.

Because he.

Knew Maria turned him down.

After he asked her out.

Noticed all our phrasal verbs so Jim could say  How did you find out that Maria turned me down?

So how did you discover this?

How did you learn this?

How did you find this out?

And we use this when you want  to get information as well.

So I might say I need to find out  when the store closes because I  

have a package I need to drop off  but I don't know when they close.

I need to find that out.

So learn or discover that specific information.

So now that you understand all  of these phrasal verbs, how?

About we do the.

Quiz from the beginning again,  

and then you can compare your score  from the first time to the second time.

So let's do that same quiz now.

Question 1.

The phrasal verb used to invite  someone on a romantic date is.

The phrasal verb is to.

Ask out.

Question two.

If you like a genre of music, you  can say I'm really country music.

I'm really into country music #3.

If a movie made you sad, you can say that movie.

Really Me Down?

That movie really brought me down #4 If you think  someone should be happier, you can say cheer.

Cheer up, cheer up #5.

Do you have time to the dry  cleaning on your way home?

Do you have time to pick up number six?

You see that box?

Can you at the post office?

Can you drop it off #7?

We end it up at home.

We ended up staying at home #8,  

which phrasal verb is used to reject  someone or something to turn down #9.

When you complete a form, you can  use both fill in and fill out.

This is true #10.

How did you that Maria was fired?

How did you find out?

Question one.

Please bear me.

While I look up.

Your file.

Please bear with me.

While I look up your file, Question 2,  

the phrasal verb to attend to means  to attend to means to work on #3.

Why are you so angry?

You need to cool.

You need to cool down #4.

The phrasal verb for repair is.

The phrasal verb for repair is fix up #5.

The phrasal verb for.

To.

Discuss something so you can reach an agreement  is to hash out to hash out number six.

If someone is being too serious,  you can tell them to lighten up.

Lighten up.

You're being too serious.

Lighten up, #7.

After years of studying English,  my hard work has finally paid.

My hard work has finally paid off.

#8 We shouldn't rule out a graphic designer.

We shouldn't rule out hiring a graphic designer.

#9 My boss for being late again, my  boss chewed me out for being late again.

And #10 let's give everyone a few  minutes too before we begin to settle in.

So how did you do with that quiz?

With an easy Difficult.

Share your score.

In the comments below, and now I'm going to  explain every single phrasal verb in detail.

So let's do that.

Now to bear with someone.

This is a very common phrasal verb.

It has a simple meaning.

It means to be patient with someone.

So we use this a lot with.

Customer service representatives or any time  someone is providing you with a service,  

now it's very common when that person is  providing you with that service to say,  

please bear with me, please  bear with me, Please be patient.

So notice our verb tense.

That's in the imperative, the imperative.

So we're starting with the base verb.

Now if you use this verb and  other verb tenses, it's an E.

Regular.

Verb The past simple is bore, and the  past participle is any idea it's born.

That's right, born with an  optional E for spelling,  

but pronunciation is exactly the same in the past.

Simple.

You could say I bore with him for 20 minutes,  

I was patient with him for 20 minutes, and  in the past participle you can use this.

In the present Perfect, you might say.

I've born with you for 20 minutes.

Our next.

Phrasal verb is.

To attend to now, notice we're using the  verb attend, and I could say last night I  

attended the party, but that's not a  phrasal verb, that's just a regular.

Verb.

Because I don't have a  preposition, I attended the party.

I went to the party.

But if we use the phrasal verb  attend to, the meaning is different.

I could say I attended to the.

Party.

Now, in this case, this means that I worked on or  I paid attention to the party, so how could you?

Work.

On a party, Well, you could  work on organizing a party.

So organizing all the details, sending  out the invitations, buying the food,  

cleaning the apartment, getting the decorations.

I attended to the party.

So pay attention because the verb attends and the.

Phasal verb.

Attend to have different meanings our next.

Phrasal.

Verb.

To cool down.

To cool down.

We use this when someone is really angry,  upset or frustrated and you want them to.

Relax.

You can say cool down, cool down.

So let's say a client has been sending you a  lot of emails and you're feeling really angry,  

irritated, annoyed, frustrated with that client.

But before you call that client,  you should definitely cool down.

You need to take a minute.

And.

Relax.

Because you.

Don't want to call that client when  you're angry and frustrated and annoyed.

You need to cool down.

Relax.

Chill.

Our next?

Phrasal verb to fix something up.

When you fix something up, it means you repair  it or you change it in order to improve it.

Now, in this case, when you change  it, it's not necessarily broken.

It could be that it's functioning,  but you want to improve it,  

so you make some changes to it, you fix it up.

So for example, I could say Sally loves  fixing up old cars, cars in her free time,  

fixing up old cars so she repairs them.

But it could also mean that she just changes them.

Maybe the car is working perfectly,  

but she changes it, she changes the  color, or she adds something to it.

She fixes it up.

Now this is a very common  phrasal verb around the house,  

because there's always something to fix up right?

To change, to repair, to improve.

Our next phrasal verb to.

Hash something out.

When you have something out, it means you talk  about something specific with other people,  

and you do that because you want to get agreement.

You want to get agreement on the details.

So you can use this when  you're planning a conference,  

planning a party, planning a  project, any kind of event.

And of course, with a project or  conference, there are many details.

The date, the time, Who's doing what.

So you need to hash out those details.

You need to talk about them to get agreement.

OK, we agreed to the time of the conference.

We hashed it out.

We hashed out the time of the conference.

Our next phrasal verb to lighten up.

Now remember, I already taught you to cool  down, and that's when you're really angry,  

frustrated, annoyed, and you want to relax.

Well, when you tell someone to lighten  up, you also want them to relax.

But they're not angry, frustrated, or annoyed.

They're just being.

Too.

Serious.

That's it.

They're being too serious.

They don't have a sense of humor.

So maybe you were joking around  with a Co worker and they took it  

too seriously and you just wanted  to have some fun and joke around.

But they're too serious.

So you might say, lighten up, lighten  up, laugh a little, smile a little.

You're too serious.

So someone who's always like this, you know,  they're not smiling, they're not laughing.

They're just always very serious.

You might want to tell that person  to lighten up, smile, relax, laugh.

But just remember it isn't the same as cool down.

Because cool down, you're angry and annoyed.

Lighten up.

You're too serious.

That's the difference between the two.

Our next phrasal verb, to pay off.

Now, when something pays off, it means  that you see the benefit of the something.

So let's say you spent the last month at home  

studying for a big exam and you  took the exam and you passed.

You got a really high mark.

You can say all my studying paid off.

So remember, something pays off.

All my studying paid off.

I now see the benefits of all the studying I did.

So we use this a lot for any kind  of work or effort that you put in.

Now it can be mental.

Work.

For studying for your job,  but it can also be physical.

Work.

As well.

So all your dieting, your exercising,  paid off because now you lost weight.

You're stronger.

You see the benefit of all your work.

So we can use this with both mental  work and physical work our next.

Phrasal verb.

To rule.

Out we use.

This when something prevents  something else from happening.

So a classic example, we have  COVID and we have traveling.

Now COVID is preventing  traveling from happening, right?

So we can say COVID ruled out traveling, right?

Kovid prevented traveling.

Kovid ruled out traveling.

Our next phrasal verb?

To chew.

Someone.

Out.

To chew someone out.

This is when you tell someone  that they've done something wrong,  

but you tell them angrily so you don't tell them.

Calm, calmly.

You know you made a mistake.

You shouldn't have done that.

No, you're angry, so you might yell a little.

You might use language that you normally wouldn't.

You're angry somebody did something  wrong and you tell them so.

Maybe your boss chewed you out because  you were late for an important meeting.

So your boss was not calm.

Your boss was angry.

Why were you late?

You shouldn't have been late.

Why haven't I fired you yet?

He chews.

You out?

Or maybe you're on a sports  team and your coach chewed  

you out because you missed an important practice.

Now if somebody.

Chews.

You out and they're really angry.

What phrasal verb goes with that  phrasal verb that we've already learned?

Cool down, right?

Because if somebody's angry.

Why were you late?

You can say cool down, cool down,  relax, and then you can explain.

Why you were late?

Our final phrasal.

Verb.

To settle in, when you settle in, it means  you get comfortable in a new environment,  

and that new environment is  generally a new house, a new.

School.

A new workplace.

And of course, at the beginning you're not  comfortable just because everything is new, right?

But then you need some time to settle in.

So settle in just means to get  comfortable in a new environment.

So let's say you move to a new city and a few  

weeks later a friend could ask  you, oh, have you settled in?

Have you settled in?

So they're just asking you, do you  feel comfortable in your new city?

And then you might reply back and say, yeah,  I've settled in, or no, I haven't settled in yet.

Now that you know how to use all of these phrasal  verbs, how about we do the exact same quiz from  

the very beginning and you can compare your  score from the first time to this time.

So let's do that quiz again.

Now question one, please bear me.

While I look up.

Your file.

Please bear with me.

While I look.

Up your file Question 2.

The phrasal verb to attend to means  to attend, to means to work on number.

3.

Why are you so angry?

You need to cool.

You need to cool down #4.

The phrasal verb for repair is.

The.

Phrasal verb for repair is fix up #5.

The phrasal verb for.

To.

Discuss something so you can reach.

An agreement is to hash out.

To hash out Number six.

If someone is being too serious,  you can tell them to lighten up.

Lighten up.

You're being too serious.

Lighten up, #7.

After years of studying English,  my hard work has finally paid.

My hard work has finally paid off #8 We  shouldn't rule out a graphic designer.

We shouldn't rule out hiring a graphic designer.

#9 My boss for being late again.

My boss chewed me out for  being late again and #10.

Let's give everyone a few minutes too  before we begin to settle in question 1.

The phrasal verb used when you gradually  introduce a new rule, policy, or law is.

The phrasal verb is to phase in question two.

If you want to reserve a specific time  in your calendar, you can block it.

You can block it off.

Question three, When the fire alarm  went off everyone of the building,  

everyone cleared out of the building.

Question 4:00.

We'll have to air conditioning this summer.

We'll have to do without question 5.

If someone is removed from a position  against their will, they are.

They are forced out of that position.

Number six, the phrasal verb used when information  

becomes clear in one's mind  is to sink in Question 7.

The government had to a lot of  companies during the pandemic.

The government had to bail out Question 8.

Oh no, I think I behind my phone.

I think I left behind my phone.

Question nine.

You don't want to miss this amazing opportunity.

Miss out on and question 10.

The phrasal verb for arrive is show up.

So how did you do with that quiz?

Was it easy or was it difficult?

Now I'll explain every phrasal verb in detail  with the definition and example sentence as well.

To.

Phase something in.

When you phase something in, it means  that you introduce something new,  

but you introduce it gradually, which  means little by little and general.

What we're introducing is a new law, a new  rule, a new regulation or a new policy.

So let's say that your company has a new  policy and they're introducing a dress code.

A dress code will tell you what  you can and cannot wear to work.

Now, let's say they announce the new dress code,  

but they say we're phasing in the new  dress code over the next two months.

Now, why would they want to  introduce it little by little?

Well, maybe it's because they  want to give you time to prepare.

You might have to go out and  buy new clothing, for example.

So you might have to save money to do that  and get comfortable doing that as well.

So maybe the first week they introduce the new.

Shirts.

That they want you to wear and then.

The next week.

It's the new shoes, and the  following week it's the new pants.

And little by little, they phase in the new dress.

Code.

#2 to block.

Off.

Now, the thing about phrasal verbs is they're  always used in a very specific context.

So in this context, a block off we're talking  

specifically about time in your  calendar or on your schedule.

So you're blocking off time.

So what does that mean?

It means that you reserve that time for a  specific task or activity and you reserve  

that time so no one else can schedule  a meeting with you or no one else can  

assign you a task during those specific  blocks of time because you block them off.

So let's say you're preparing for the IELTS, and  you might block off Monday, Wednesday, Friday from  

7:00 to 9:00 in your calendar, and that is the  time you're going to spend studying for IELTS.

Or if you have an important deadline at  work, you might block off the entire day.

So you might block off Monday and just focus  on that task so you can meet the deadline.

So this is probably something you do every  single day anyway for time management purposes.

And now you know how to explain that  naturally in English #3, to clear out.

And again, remember, phrasal verbs  are used in a very specific context.

And in this context, we're talking  about clearing out of a location  

like a restaurant or even a conference,  an office, a mall, any location that has.

A lot of.

People in it generally, and when  people clear out of a location,  

it means they simply leave the location,  but that location then becomes empty.

So the majority or all of  the people leave a location.

That's when you clear.

Out of a.

Location.

So let's say you go to lunch at a  restaurant around 1:30 and it's.

Really busy.

You get the last available table  and you're eating your lunch.

You're talking to your Co  worker and then around 2:00?

30 you look.

Around and you notice.

That you're the.

Only table left in the restaurant.

And remember, the restaurant was full when you  got there, so you could turn to your Co worker  

and say, wow, it really cleared weird out,  which means everybody left the restaurant #4.

To do.

Without something, this is a really  useful one because it's a fact of life.

You're going to have to do without certain  things at certain times in your life.

So when you do without something, it  means you manage despite the lack of,  

and it's the lack of the  something that you do without.

So let me give you an example.

Maybe finances are a little tight.

You didn't get that bonus you were hoping for.

So you might say we'll have to do without  a cleaner for the next few months.

Do without a cleaner.

So a cleaner is someone who cleans your house.

A house cleaner.

Now, previously a lot of people call this a maid.

I know many people in certain  countries still call it a maid.

In North America, it's considered outdated  

and even a little politically  incorrect to call someone a maid.

We now call them house cleaners.

So just so you know, it's  more politically correct.

To use house.

Cleaner.

So you have to manage manage your  day-to-day manage your house.

Despite the lack of a house cleaner,  

we have to do without a house cleaner  because I didn't get the bonus.

So you can use this in a personal  context like I just gave you,  

or you can use this in a work context as well.

Maybe your assistant quit and you're  having trouble finding a new assistant.

So you might say, well, I guess I'll have to  do without an assistant for the next month,  

which means you have to manage all your work  without an assistant, do without something.

It's a very useful phrasal verb  because we all have to do without  

certain things at certain points in our life.

Our next phrasal verb to force out.

This is a very useful business phrasal verb.

You're going to hear it in the  media newspapers all the time.

When someone is forced out, it means that  they are asked to leave their position,  

but it wasn't their decision to do so.

Notice the sentence structure I used.

I put this in the passive to be forced.

Out.

For example, the CEO was  forced out after the scandal.

So there's a scandal, obviously.

It didn't look.

Good for the CEO.

So the company wanted him to leave.

The CEO himself did not want to leave,  

but the company wanted him to  leave, so the CEO was forced out.

Now if you use it in the active sentence,  you'd be talking about who forced out the CEO.

So you might say the board of directors  forced the CEO out after the scandal.

So you can absolutely use this in the active,  

but it's very commonly used in the passive,  our next phrasal verb #6, to sink in.

When something sinks in, it  becomes clear in your mind,  

and the something that's sinking  in is information, news, and event.

For example, it took him a while  before his mother's death sunk in.

So his mother died, But that fact, that  event didn't sink in for some time.

It didn't become clear, So he didn't process it.

He didn't fully understand it.

He didn't fully accept it as a  fact, as a reality for some time.

So the event, his mother's death didn't sink in.

So we do use this a lot for tragic events,  

but we can also use this with  difficult or complicated information.

For example, let's say your coworker is  explaining a new accounting software,  

and it's pretty technical.

So your coworker is explaining it, explaining it,  

explaining it quite quickly, and you might  say, give me a minute to let that sink.

In.

So that is the information, the information your  

coworker was just explaining, and  for that the information to sink in.

It means for you to fully  understand it, to fully process it.

So we can use it for tragic events, but we  can also use this for complicated information.

#7 to bail out.

This is another must know business phrasal verb,  

but you can also use it in  your personal life as well.

When you bail someone out, it means  that you rescue them and you rescue  

them from a financially difficult situation.

So remember that CEO that was  forced out in our previous example?

Well, maybe he had a sister that bailed him out.

His.

Sister bailed him out, which means  his sister helped him financially,  

so maybe she gave him a place to stay because  he couldn't afford his rent, She gave him food  

because he couldn't afford groceries, and she  gave him money because he didn't have any.

His sister bailed him out.

So we can use it in a personal context, but  this is commonly used in a business context  

in the sense of the government bailing out  companies because they're about to go bankrupt.

And why would the government do that?

Well, because that company  is important for the economy.

For example, in the US, the company Chrysler,  

which is an automobile company, they've been  bailed out by the government multiple times.

Chrysler as a company has almost  gone bankrupt multiple times,  

and the government has come  in and bailed the company out.

They bailed Chrysler out number  eight to leave something behind.

This is a very useful one  in your everyday vocabulary.

When you leave something behind, it simply means  that you forget something at a specific location.

So we do this all the time, right?

We go to a restaurant, a cafe,  we put our phone on the counter.

We get our.

Coffee.

And we go, and Oh no, I left my phone behind.

I think I left my phone behind at the cafe.

So it's just the same as saying I  think I forgot my phone at the cafe.

You can use this with any object  you can leave behind your keys,  

your sweater, your jacket, your  computer, whatever you want.

So this is a very useful one.

So what about you?

Have you ever left something important behind?

Maybe you left your cell phone behind, or your  laptop behind, or important family photos behind.

Have you ever left something behind?

Let us know in the comments  #9 to miss out on something.

To miss out on something.

And this is when you miss an important opportunity  or an experience that shouldn't have been missed.

So let's.

Say that you.

Work for Tesla and Elon Musk was making an.

Appearance at your office.

That day.

And you were going to get to meet Elon Musk.

But your bus was late and you didn't get to work  on time and you didn't get to meet Elon Musk.

You, my friend, just missed out  on an opportunity of a lifetime.

You missed out on meeting Elon Musk.

So you could say.

I can't believe I missed out.

You can just end it there.

I can't believe I missed out.

If you want to continue, you can say I can't  believe I missed out on meeting Elon Musk.

And finally #10 to show up.

If show up has a very simple definition,  it means to appear or arrive.

Native speakers don't really use appear  or arrive, we use show up, for example.

What time did you show up?

To the party.

I would never say what time did you?

Arrive.

To the.

Party.

I wouldn't say that that sounds unnatural.

Outdated.

Too formal.

I would say what time did you show up?

What time did you show up to the party?

What time did you show up last night?

Now let's say you got to work  late one day and your boss is  

standing at your desk as you're walking  to your desk and you're 45 minutes late  

and your boss might look at you and  say, oh how nice of you to finally.

Show up.

That's obviously sarcastic, but  this happens a lot if you get to a.

Party.

Really late.

Or even if you're just having dinner at  home with your your husband or your wife.

But dinner is normally at 7:00  and you don't get home till 7:30.

And your husband or your wife has been waiting  and waiting and waiting when you get home,  

they might say, oh, how nice  of you to finally show up.

So we use this a lot in a  sarcastic way when someone  

is late, but we also use it just  to talk about getting somewhere.

Oh, I showed up at and then you say the time.

So now that you feel more comfortable with  these phrasal verbs, how about we do the  

exact same quiz again and you can compare your  score from the first time to the second time.

So let's do that quiz again.

Now question 1, the phrasal verb used when you  gradually introduce a new rule, policy, or law is.

The phrasal verb is to phase in question two.

If you want to reserve a specific time  in your calendar, you can block it.

You can block it off.

Question three, When the fire alarm  went off everyone of the building,  

everyone cleared out of the building.

Question 4:00.

We'll have to air conditioning this summer.

We'll have to do without question 5.

If someone is removed from a position  against their will, they are.

They are forced out of that position number six.

The phrasal verb used when information becomes  clear in one's mind is to sink in Question 7.

The government had to a lot of  companies during the pandemic.

The government had to bail out Question 8.

Oh no, I think I behind my phone.

I think I left behind my phone.

Question nine.

You don't want to miss this amazing opportunity.

Miss out on and question 10.

The phrasal verb for arrive is show up.

Question one, I used to play video games  every day, but eventually I grew out of it.

Question two.

Do you know why?

Sarah of the meeting.

Earlier today.

Walked.

Out of the meeting question three.

Can you add mustard to the shopping list?

I just I just used it up.

Question 4.

You should.

Your.

Old books to your community store.

You should give away question 5.

The bridge is because there was an accident.

The bridge is blocked off.

Question six, my boss said we can  with canceling the contract, we can.

Go ahead.

Question seven, my company using  cell phones during work hours.

My company frowns on question eight.

I'm sorry I at you during the meeting  I overreacted last out question 9.

Can you help me this error sort out question 10?

The presentation was really long,  so I for a bit, so I wandered off.

So how did you do with that quiz?

Was it easy or was it difficult?

Well, now I'm going to explain  every phrasal verb in detail.

Number one, to block off.

This is when you obstruct an exit  to prevent people from leaving.

This is a very common phrasal verb,  because on your daily commute to work,  

you may have to take a detour,  which means take an alternative.

Route because your regular exit is blocked off.

So let's say you get to work 15 minutes late.

You can say sorry I'm late,  Main Street was blocked off  

and most likely that street or exit is  blocked off because of construction.

It's also possible that there was an  accident, or perhaps there's something  

like a parade or a protest that's preventing  people from using that exit #2 to lash out.

When you lash out, it means.

You.

React angrily.

You react with very strong negative emotion,  

so this phrasal verb is negative,  and it's used in a negative way.

So you might say she lashed out when  I suggested a different approach.

So you shared an opinion and the person  reacted very negatively, very angrily.

They lashed out.

Now, for this phrasal verb, it's  very common to say at someone.

She lashed out at me when I  suggested a different approach.

The at someone is optional.

You don't need to do it, but it  can be very useful to specify who.

So if you want to specify the person,  

then we use at someone she lashed  out at gym, she lashed out at us.

It could be the entire group she  lashed out at the client and then  

you can explain the reason why she lashed  out at the client because the payment.

Was late.

#3 to walk out.

When you walk out, it means  you leave a place angrily.

So we have another phrasal verb with angrily.

You leave a place angrily.

So let's say you're meeting with your  boss to discuss your performance.

Now, maybe you were expecting a 20% raise.

A raise is a pay increase, a 20% pay increase.

But your boss only offered you.

2.

Percent, you might say.

After my boss offered Me 2%, I walked out.

So you left the room, You  left the office, the meeting.

But you didn't just leave,  You left angrily, angrily.

That's the key here.

So combining our last phrasal  verb to lash out to react angrily,  

we can say after she lashed out at  me, I walked out #4 to sort out.

This means to resolve a problem.

Now we can use this with a  business professional problem.

For example, let's say your payment processor  isn't working and you can't accept payments.

You might say we need to sort this out ASAP.

We need to resolve this problem ASAP.

Or who can we call to sort this out?

So you can absolutely use this in a professional  

business context when there's  a problem we commonly use.

This with.

Personal issues with relationship issues  when you have a problem with another person.

So let's say you and your sister haven't  spoken in months because of a disagreement.

Maybe your sister?

Lashed.

Out at you.

And then you walked out of her birthday  party and you haven't spoken since.

Well, someone might suggest  some ways you can sort it out.

You need to sort it out with your sister.

You need to resolve the problem, and in  this case the problem is a personal problem.

So this is a great phrasal  verb to use for a business  

context and a personal context #5 to use up.

This is when you finish or consume  100% of something, so all of something.

And that's very important because  I could say I used the olive oil,  

so I consumed the olive oil, but when I  just say use, it doesn't tell you how much.

How much olive oil did I use?

I used the olive oil, but if I say I used up the  

olive oil then you know I  used 100% of the olive oil.

So there is none left for you or for  someone else, and you have to get.

More.

So I could say I used all the olive oil.

When I say all the olive oil, all means 100%.

So that is exactly the same as I used up  the olive oil number six to wander off.

This is when you leave a place  when you're not supposed to,  

or you leave a place without telling other people.

Now, this is commonly used with children.

So a mother might say, I have to watch my  daughter like a hawk or she'll wander off.

So little kids, they might not stay in a room,  they might wander off and go into another room.

But of course that can be dangerous  if nobody is watching that child.

So this is commonly used with young  children, but we can also use it with adults.

So let's say you're on a museum tour and  you're in a foreign country on a museum tour.

Now you're supposed was to  stay with the museum tour.

You're not supposed to wander off and  just go look at other areas of the museum.

But you might say the.

Tour.

Was boring, so I wandered off #7 to grow out  of this is when you lose interest in something.

So to lose interest, you're no longer interested  

in something because because  you're older or more mature.

For example, a lot of young kids play  video games for hours and hours and hours.

But.

As an adult, you might grow out  of it, so you no longer do that.

You no longer play video games for hours  and hours and hours because you're older.

You're more mature #8 To go  ahead, this means to proceed.

This is a very.

Useful.

Phrasal verb.

We use it commonly to give someone  permission to do something.

So your coworker might ask you, is it OK if I send  the e-mail to the client and you can say sure,  

go ahead, go ahead, which means proceed,  proceed with sending the e-mail, go ahead.

Now you can just say go ahead.

Or you can specify what the action is.

You can say go ahead and send the e-mail  or go ahead with and we need a gerund go  

ahead with sending the e-mail and send  the e-mail with sending the e-mail.

So pay attention to that sentence structure #9  to give away this means to provide for free.

So this is a great phrasal verb for me.

I could say I give away my best tips and advice  

on how to become fluent right  here on this YouTube channel.

Now let's say you have a lot of items from  your kids, but your kids are grown up now,  

but you have a lot of their clothes,  their toys, even furniture for your kids.

You might want to give that  away so you can provide it  

to another parent or someone else for free.

We gave away all our kids  clothes when they moved out.

So when you want to get rid of something in your  house, you can sell it or you can give it away.

Provide.

It for free.

And finally #10 to frown on this  means to disapprove of something.

So you might say my boss  disapproves of casual clothes,  

so you can say my boss frowns  on wearing casual clothes.

Notice our sentence structure frowns on wearing.

We need our jaron verb.

Now that you feel more comfortable  with these phrasal verbs,  

how about we do the exact same quiz again  so you can see how much you've improved?

Here are the questions.

Hit, pause.

Take as much time as you  need, and when you're ready,  

hit play to see the answers, Here are the answers.

Hit pause.

Take as much time as you need, compare your  answers, and when you're ready, hit play.

Question one.

You're not going to paying $500.00.

For that, you're not going  to talk me into question two.

Mariah, This sales proposal Yesterday,  Mariah drew up question three.

Good news because everyone, we met the  deadline because everyone stepped it up.

Question 4 If you keep skipping  breaks, you're going to, you're going.

To.

Burnout.

Question five.

That's a great point.

You should at the meeting, you should bring it up.

Question six Who do you the most in your family?

Who do you look up to?

Question 7 How long do we need to at the party?

How long do we need to stick around?

Question A Your tires.

Look really you should get new ones.

Your tires.

Look.

Really.

Worn out Question 9.

The seller tried to so we didn't buy it.

The seller tried to rip us off.

Question 10.

I noticed that this report our production costs.

This report honed in on how  did you do with the quiz.

Was it easy or difficult?

Share your score in the comments  and don't worry if it was hard,  

because now I'll explain  every phrasal verb in detail.

Number one to RIP.

Off.

We use this when someone is selling something  or buying something and the buyer feels that  

the price is too high compared to  the value of whatever they're buying.

For example, I can't believe.

I paid.

$200 for that.

She ripped me off.

Now notice the sentence structure.

You rip someone off.

She ripped me off.

Another example.

She told everyone that I ripped  her off, but it was a fair price.

So just because someone claims you  ripped them off, it doesn't necessarily?

Mean It's true.

#2 To wear out.

We use this when something is damaged or weakened  because of age, it's old, or because of use.

You've used it a lot.

For example, I wore out my  tennis shoes last summer.

If someone said that to me, I would assume  they played a lot of tennis last summer.

They played so much tennis that they wore out.

Their shoes.

They became damaged from use  from continually playing tennis.

We also use this in an  adjective form to be worn out.

So it would be very common to say I need to  buy new tennis shoes because mine are worn out.

So of course are because shoes is plural and  we need the plural form of the verb to be mine.

My tennis shoes are worn out, so both  forms are very common #3 to draw up.

We use this when you need to prepare paperwork,  and generally that paperwork is for a contract,  

an agreement, a proposal, generally something that  two people need to sign or agree on to make it.

Official.

For example, I asked my  lawyer to draw up the papers.

Whenever you're dealing with a lawyer, the papers.

Are going to be.

Official so this is a perfect time to use to draw.

Up.

Or you could say we're waiting for our  bank to draw up the mortgage agreement.

So that's another very official  document that you need to sign.

And you can use the phrasal verb to draw up #4.

To.

Burn out.

This is a phrasal verb that has gotten a lot of  attention recently, especially with the pandemic.

Because to burn out, this is  when and you feel exhausted,  

mentally or physically, from prolonged stress.

Stress of work, stress of a situation  like a pandemic, stress of a family,  

situation like a divorce or an illness,  something like that, but a prolonged period.

You can be stressed out for a day, but  when you burn out, it means you've had  

that stress for a long period of time, several  weeks, several months, even several years.

For example, I burned out at my last job,  

so perhaps I was working so much that I went  through this period of prolonged stress.

I burned out.

Another example, I burned out  after caring for my aging parents.

So caregivers often experience burnout.

So you can use this in a work situation or you  can use it in a personal situation as well.

#5 to look up to someone.

So notice we have two prepositions.

Look up two and then someone.

We use this when you admire  someone or you respect someone.

So I could say I looked up to him like a father.

So of course I admire and respect my father and  I'm comparing the situation to someone else.

I looked up to him.

I admired him like a father.

Another example, I really look up to my boss.

So you admire your boss or you respect your boss.

You hold your boss in high regard.

So you can use this in a work situation.

You can look up to people.

And you can use this in a social  situation, a family situation.

You can have many different people in your  life that you look up to for different reasons.

Number six, to step up.

Now, that's the phrase is a verb, but we most  commonly use it in the expression to step it up.

Notice that it it's very important  to step it up to step it up.

This simply means to work harder or to try harder.

Now you can say we need to step it up  if we're going to meet the deadline.

So you have this deadline,  you need to work harder.

So it's the same as saying we need to work.

Harder.

If we're going to meet the  deadline, step it up Now.

What is this it in the expression?

Well, the IT would represent.

Work.

Or.

Effort.

We need to step up our work.

We need to step up our or effort.

Step it up.

I encourage you to use it that way.

Step it up because you'll  sound like a native speaker.

We have a really common expression with this.

Step it up and then you add the two.

Words.

A.

Notch Step it up a notch.

If you look at a dial, A notch is 1.

Move on the dial so it represents  a little bit, a small amount.

Step it up a notch.

It's just like saying step it up a little bit.

So that's just a common expression.

You need to step it up a notch  if you want to meet the deadline.

So you can use it with a notch.

It's very common.

Or you can use it without #7 to hone in on.

This is another two preposition phrasal verb.

We have hone in on hone in on something and  this means to really focus on something,  

to put all your attention on something specific.

For example, if we want to get more customers, we  should really hone in on small business owners.

So maybe right now you're not being very  specific and you're looking at all customers,  

but you want to hone in on one specific segment  of the population, small business owners.

So you're going to focus on them.

You're going to hone in on them.

Another example for the presentation, we  should really hone in on South America.

So maybe you're a global company and  you have branches all over the world.

But for this specific presentation,  

you're going to hone in on one specific  part of the world, South America.

Now.

Many native speakers, native  speakers, not students.

Many native speakers mistakenly say home in on.

We need to home in on and that's because  in pronunciation they're very similar.

Hone in, home in and hone.

What's that?

It's not really used very much,  but everybody knows the word home.

But this isn't correct.

The expression is not home in on.

The expression is hone in on.

So make sure you get that both in  pronunciation hone and in spelling as well.

And if you hear a native speaker say home in  on, they're incorrect #8 This is a must know  

phrasal verb to bring up, and this is when  you begin a discussion on a specific topic.

For example, if you're in a staff meeting, it  would be very common for the boss or whoever  

is leading the meeting to say before we end the  meeting, does anyone have anything to bring up?

Does anyone have a specific  topic they want to discuss?

Does anyone have anything to bring up?

Or after the meeting you  might tell another colleague?

I didn't have a chance to bring  up the marketing proposal,  

so you didn't have a chance to discuss this  specific topic, the marketing proposal.

Maybe you ran out of time #9 to talk  into and the sentence structure is  

to talk someone into something, and this  means to convince someone to do something.

For example, she talked me into helping her move.

She convinced me to help her move.

So when someone uses this, oh, she  talked me into helping her move.

It gives you the impression that the person.

Didn't really.

Want to do the activity but somebody.

Convinced them.

But please, I really need your help.

I'll buy pizza.

Or maybe you could say my team talked me into  bringing up the bonus at the staff meeting.

So notice I use bring up discuss  a specific topic, the bonus.

My team talked me into bringing up the bonus  now, because maybe discussing the bonus is  

a little bit of a sensitive issue and nobody  wants to do it, but your team convinced you.

Lucky you.

So they talked you into.

It.

And #10 to stick around, this  is a must use phrasal verb.

You can use it in a social  setting or a professional setting.

To stick around means to stay in  a location for a period of time.

So let's say you're at this  beautiful park with a friend,  

and after an hour or so your friend has to leave  and they say, do you want to share an Uber?

And you say, no, I'm going to  stick around a little bit longer.

So you're going to stay in a specific  location, the park, for a period of time.

It's unknown how long you'll stay.

That doesn't really matter.

It's just the fact you're going to stay.

I'm going to stick around a little bit longer.

It's such a beautiful day.

I'm going to stick around now.

You can also use this in the negative.

I can't stick around very  long because I have a meeting.

Although it's a beautiful day,  I can't stick around very long.

I have a meeting to get back.

To.

Now that you're more comfortable with these  phrasal verbs, let's do that same quiz again.

So here are the questions you need to choose  which phrasal verb best completes the sentence.

Here are the questions.

Hit pause.

Now complete the quiz and whenever you're  ready, hit play and I'll share the answers.

So go ahead and hit pause now.

Welcome back.

So how did you do on this quiz?

Let's find out.

Here are the answers.

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