TOP 10 PHRASAL VERBS IN ENGLISH - Most Common Phrasal Verbs (with QUIZ)

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Welcome back to JForrest English. I'm Jennifer.  And today you're going to add the top 10 phrasal  
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verbs to your vocabulary to help you sound just  like a native English speaker. And at the end,  
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I'm going to quiz you to make sure you really  understand these phrasal verbs. Let's get started.  
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Number one, to dish out this  simply means to criticize.
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So when you criticize someone or something, you  say something negative about it. For example,  
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she really dished it out to Tom at  the meeting. She really criticized  
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Tom at the meeting. Now notice I  said dished it out. What's the IT?
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The IT represents the criticism she dished  out the criticism she dished it out to Tom.  
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And we always use this expression with  criticism, so you don't need to specify  
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that it. I'm sharing this phrasal verb with you  because we have a very common in expression in  
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English. You can dish it out, but you can't  take it. You can dish it out, which means.
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You freely give criticism to  others, but you can't take it,  
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which means if somebody tries to criticize you.
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You do not accept that you become very upset or  very angry. So if someone is being very critical,  
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you might say, well, you can dish it out,  but can you take it? Can you receive the  
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criticism that you're giving? It's a way  to remind someone that maybe you shouldn't  
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criticize others. You can dish it out, but  you can't take it #2 to muddle through.
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This is when you do or achieve something  accidentally without a specific plan. For  
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example, I'm muddled through making the cake,  so maybe I had no idea how to make this cake.  
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I didn't know the procedure. I didn't feel  prepared. I'm muddled through making the cake.
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But it was actually quite delicious. So  sometimes when you muddle through something,  
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the result isn't very positive because you  don't actually have a plan. Other times it  
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can be positive. In the end, #3 to nerd out. Oh,  I love this one. When you nerd out on something,  
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it means you discuss it in great  detail, greater detail than the.
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Average person would normally do. For example,  
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I can nerd out on sentence structure all  day. I can discuss sentence structure,  
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English sentence structure all day but my  friends who are native English speakers.
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Have no interest in discussing English sentence  structure. To them, that is boring. But to me,  
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as an English teacher and most  likely to you as an English learner,  
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we can nerd out on the English language  all day. I can also nerd out on plants.
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Talking about plans, different types of plants.  Looking at plants. I really love plants as well,  
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but the average person probably doesn't want  to discuss it in as much detail as I do. What  
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about you? What's something that you could  nerd out on, Nerd out on this specific topic?
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All day. Share that in the comments #4 to stick  around. This is a very common phrasal verb and  
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it simply means to remain in a place for a  period of time. Let's say you just finished  
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dinner with a friend at a restaurant, and  you drove, but your friend took the bus.
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So you can just get in your car and leave, but  your friend has to wait until the bus comes.  
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So you could say, oh don't worry, I'll  stick around until the bus comes. I'll  
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stay with you at this specific location, the  restaurant or the bus stop, until the bus comes.
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Or let's say you're in the mall and  it's raining outside. You might say,  
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well, let's just stick around until it  stops raining. So let's stay at this  
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specific location until it stops raining.  You'll absolutely use this in your daily  
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speech and hear native speakers, using  this one all the time #5 to wash up.
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This simply means to clean your hands,  to wash your hands and or to wash your  
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face. So before dinner you could say, oh I  just need to wash up and most likely you're  
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going to wash your hands. And I commonly say  this in the evening before I watch a movie.  
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I could say to my husband, oh just give me 5  minutes to wash up before we start the movie.
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And for me, it's to wash my face because I love  taking off my makeup before I watch a movie.  
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It's a lot more comfortable, so women might  use the wash up for our face more frequently,  
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so it can be for both hands and face  number six to lock up. This is when  
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you securely close your windows and  doors or entrances to your house or.
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Building. So it's another way of  simply saying lock. For example,  
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make sure you lock up before bed, and  in that case it's in your home. And  
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that's of course good advice,  but if you work in a building.
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Someone is likely responsible for  locking up at the end of the work  
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day. So one person might be responsible  for making sure that all the entrances  
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to that building are securely  closed or locked. So for example,  
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Sally is responsible for locking up #7 to  Yammer on. This is when you talk continuously.
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In an annoying way. For example, I  ran into Kate at the mall and she  
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yammered on for hours and I missed my  bus. So I ran into Kate. I saw Kate,  
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but I wasn't expecting to see her. I saw her  accidentally. I ran into Kate at the mall.
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And she yammered on Oh, hi Jennifer, I'd  love to tell you about my vacation. And  
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then 10 minutes later she's still talking  about her vacation and she doesn't realize  
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that I'm not that interested in her  vacation or I'm just busy and need  
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to leave to Yammer on. #8, to mouth  off when you mouth off to someone.
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You speak to that person in  a disrespectful way or in an  
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angry way. So this is something  that kids, especially teenagers,  
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do to their parents. And when I was a  teenager, if I mouthed off to my parents.
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I would be grounded. When you're grounded, this  means that certain privileges are taken away from  
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you. So if you're grounded, maybe you can't go  to the movies with your friends, You can't use  
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the car, you can't use the computer privileges you  would normally have in the house. You're grounded.
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You're grounded, and as adults we also don't  want to mouth off to certain people like our  
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boss or an authority figure like a police  officer is definitely not a good idea to  
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mouth off #9 to Max out. When you Max something  out, it means you take that something to a limit.
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For example, I maxed out my credit cards on  vacation. So your credit card has a limit,  
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maybe $10,000. If you maxed out that credit  card, it means that you spent $10,000,  
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the maximum amount. The limit of that  credit card. Likely not the best idea.
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Then finally, #10 to load up on. When you load up  on something, it means you consume a lot of that  
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something, or you purchase a lot of that something  for a specific purpose. So let's say you're an  
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athlete. Right before a race or a competition, you  might load up on carbs. Carbs are carbohydrates.
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Energy for your body. So you want to  consume a lot of carbs. Jim loaded  
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up on carbs before the race. Or you could  say we loaded up on toilet paper because  
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it was on sale. So we purchased  a large amount of toilet paper.
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Because it was on sale. Now you have the top 10  phrasal verbs added to your vocabulary. Are you  
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ready for your quiz? Here are the questions.  Hit pause. Take as much time as you need,  
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and when you're ready to  see the answers, hit play.
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So how did you do with that quiz? Well,  let's find out. Here aren't the answers. Hit,  
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pause and take as much time as you need to  review them. And when you're ready, hit play.
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So how did you do with that quiz? Make sure you  share your score in the comments below and share  
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your favorite phrasal verb from this list.  And why not try an example sentence with your  
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favorite phrasal verb? Do that in the comments  and you can get this free speaking guide where  
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I share 6 tips on how to speak English fluently  and confidently. You can click here or look for  
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the link in the description below and you  can keep improving your vocabulary with.
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This lesson right now?
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