Do you know these PHRASAL VERBS? (Learn 10 Common Phrasal Verbs) WITH QUIZZES

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Welcome to JForrest English.
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I'm
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Jennifer.
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And today, you're
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going to add 10 phrasal verbs to your vocabulary.
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That will help you sound fluent and natural.
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First,
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I'm going to quiz you to see how well, you know, these phrasal verbs and then I'll explain
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each one in detail.
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Let's get started question, 1.
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My boss didn't take my concern seriously, she
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Now I'll only give you three
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seconds to answer, so if you need more time, hit pause, take as much time as you need.
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And when you're ready, hit play.
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She Shrugged it off.
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Question to the text on your screen is a little small.
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Can you?
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Can you zoom in question, 3?
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I feel like Tony uses his injury, too.
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All the work.
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To wiggle out of question for, I still have 20 unread emails too.
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To get through question 5 this year, the board acquiring one of our competitors.
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The board is aiming at question six.
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I wasn't planning on eating the entire cake, but my friends.
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My friend egged me on question
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7.
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That job was perfect.
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I don't know why Tracy
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Turned it down.
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Question, eight.
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I have an important meeting today.
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I hope traffic doesn't
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hold me up.
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Question, 9.
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I'm almost ready for the party.
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I just need to before we leave.
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Fresh enough.
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Question 10, we have so much in common so we really
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Hit it off.
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Now, don't worry if that quiz was difficult because now I'm going to explain every phrasal
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verb in detail, and if you would like more personalized support to help you understand,
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the phrasal verbs, idioms and expressions that need of speakers use.
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Then I recommend the finally fluent Academy.
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This is my premium training program, where we study native English speakers on TV, movies
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and YouTube.
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So you learn the most common.
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Expressions to help you sound fluent and natural and to help you become fluent in as little
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as 90 days.
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You can look in the description below for the link to join and now I'll explain every
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phrasal verb in detail.
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Number one to aim at and you aim at a Target and when you aim at a Target, this means to
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intend to achieve that Target.
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So you would just try.
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You try to achieve that Target.
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For example, they're aiming at reducing, their costs by 10%.
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So what's the Target in this sentence?
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Reducing their costs.
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By 10% that entire Clause is the Target.
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Now notice we have a gerund verb so you can absolutely have a gerund berm.
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You can aim at doing something.
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So a, gerund verb, you can also use a noun for example.
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His slingshot was aimed at his neighbor's garage.
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So the Target in this example, is the neighbor's garage and his slingshot was aimed at because
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that's the target, he's attempting to achieve number two.
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This is a great one to shrug off.
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When you shrug something off, you disregard it.
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You don't consider it important.
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So I could say his insult.
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An insult is something - you say to another person, his insult was aimed at me to use
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our first phrasal verb.
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His insult was aimed at me, but I Shrugged it off.
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I said Ma, I don't care.
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I'm not going to let it bother me.
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I'm not going to let it hurt me.
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It's not important.
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I'm going to disregard it.
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I'm going to shrug
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It off.
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Now notice what I'm doing with my shoulders because this is the verb shrug, you can shrug
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your shoulders and we generally do that when we want to say, meh whatever we
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tend to shrug our shoulders.
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So that's where this expression comes from number 32 egg on.
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That's right.
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Egg on.
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This is a fun one.
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When you awake someone on you encourage them to do so.
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Something but that something isn't in their best interest.
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For example.
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Let's say a student is arguing with their teacher.
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Now that probably isn't in the students best interest to argue with the teacher, but if
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the other students are saying, yeah, keep going.
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You're doing great.
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They're egging him on.
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They're egging that student on
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On their encouraging, that student to keep arguing even though arguing isn't in his best
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interest or let's say you're considering doing something a little risky, like jumping off
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a high cliff.
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When you don't know what's beneath you, and maybe you're not really serious about it.
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But the crowd eggs, you Anto, do it, you can do it, you should do it there.
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Encouraging you
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No, I can have a really negative outcome.
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The crowd egged him on to jump off the cliff.
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Now most likely you won't use this in your everyday vocabulary, but you'll commonly hear
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this on TV in movies or when you're reading.
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So I wanted to share it with you so you're not confused.
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When you see this
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egg
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on and you have no idea what they're talking about.
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Now, you do number four to turn down.
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When you turn something down, it means you reject that something, and we use this in
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the context of an offer, or an invitation, for example, they offered her the job, but
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she turned it down.
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She said no to the job.
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So, of course, you can say, she rejected but it's very common more, common to say, she
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turned it down so you can
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Turn down something like a job offer.
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You can also turn down an invitation from someone else, a social invitation or a romantic
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invitation.
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For example, I ask Marissa out, but she turned me down.
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When you ask someone out, it means you invite them to dinner or a coffee for romantic purposes.
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I ask Marissa out, but she just
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She turned me down.
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She rejected my offer number five to zoom in or the opposite to zoom out.
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If there are any photographers here, you already know what this means because when you zoom
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in the object becomes closer and when you zoom out the object becomes farther away and
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I'm sharing this with you because everyone is needing on video conference now,
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When you're having a video
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conference,
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you have a camera that's focusing on you and is really important.
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You have the correct Zoom, you don't want to be too close if you're too close to the
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camera, you need to zoom out.
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If you're too far you need to zoom in so you might ask a colleague.
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Hey I can't see you very well.
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Can you zoom in or a colleague?
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Might tell you your pictures all blurry you need to zoom out so now
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Now, you know what that means for your next video.
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Call number six to wiggle out of this is a great one.
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When you wiggle out of something, you avoid a situation, a task a chore, a responsibility
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that you don't really want to do and you avoid it in a cunning way.
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So let's say that tomorrow, you're supposed to clean out the garage and you don't really
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want to but
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Wife or your husband, your sister, your brother, whoever wants you to clean out the garage.
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Now tomorrow, when you're supposed to clean out that garage, maybe you get an urgent phone
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call, just at the right moment and you have to go to work and finish something.
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But you planned that phone call, you plan that phone call to take place, right?
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As you needed to clean the garage.
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So you did that in a cunning.
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Going way.
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So you try to wiggle out of cleaning the garage.
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So basically when you're asked to do something and then you try to avoid it by creating a
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scenario
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where
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you have another responsibility or maybe a friend asked you to move but you tell them
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oh you have a back injury so you hurt your back and now you can't help them move.
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So you try to wiggle out of it.
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Number 7,
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Tell, hold up.
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This is a must know phrasal verb because we use it when you're delayed and you're delayed
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specifically while you're traveling.
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This could be traveling on a flight or a train.
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So one more long distance travel, but it can also just be traveling from your office to
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another board room or from your house to the car so it can be a very short distance travel.
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Or a more longer travel as well.
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For example, my kids always hold me up when I'm trying to leave, so you're trying to leave
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the house and then your kids, mom mom.
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I need this.
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Help me find that.
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Do this for me and they delay.
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You, they delay you, when you're trying to leave, you're trying to travel my kids.
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Always hold me up.
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Now, we commonly use this in.
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Passive form.
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So you might have an appointment that you're trying to get to and you're late.
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And when you get to that appointment, you can say, sorry, I'm late.
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I was held up to be held up.
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I was held up by my kids.
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Oh, I was held
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up
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number eight, to hit it off.
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This is a great one.
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When you hit it off, it means you have a very positive.
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Positive relationship with someone right from the first time you meet them.
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So let's say you have a new co-worker and the first conversation you have, you realized
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you have a lot in common, you really like the person they're nice.
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They're funny.
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They like you the conversations going really well, you can say, wow, we really hit it off,
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hit it off, that it
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Is just our relationship, we hit our relationship off, but we always use it.
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We really hit it off.
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Now, notice how I also said, we, we almost always use this expression with the subject.
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We my coworker, and I or we my coworker and I hit it off.
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I would not say I hit it off with my coworker, that sounds
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It's unnatural.
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We say we hit it off number 9 to get through when you get through something, it simply
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means you finish it but that something is usually a chore or an unpleasant task something
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that isn't enjoyable.
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For example, I have ten reports I need to get through
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Either end of the day, I have ten reports.
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I need to finish by the end of the day, but when I use the phrasal verb, get through it
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implies, there's going to be some effort, some struggle.
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I don't really enjoy the task number 10.
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So, freshen up, when you freshen up, you quickly,
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improve your
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appearance.
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So
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before you go into a meeting or
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Or to a social event, you can freshen up, you can go into the bathroom and you can brush
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your hair, you can put on fresh lipstick, you can check your makeup.
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Now, if you're a guy maybe you put on deodorant or cologne things like that, so you quickly
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improve
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your appearance you freshen up.
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So let's say you're going out for a nice dinner.
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You might say, oh, just give
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Give me five minutes to
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freshen
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up now that you're more comfortable with the phrasal verbs.
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How about we do that exact same quiz again and you can compare your score here are the
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questions
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hit pause.
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Take as much time as you need and when you're ready, hit play to see the answers.
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Here are your answers?
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So hit, pause,
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take as much time as you
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need to review the answers.
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So what's your favorite phrasal verb from the list?
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Share that in the comments below?
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I think mine is to egg.
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Someone on.
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That's a really fun and weird phrasal verb and don't forget to download your free speaking
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