QUICK ENGLISH BOOST 🇬🇧 | 10 Phrasal Verbs EVERY English Speaker Uses When They’re Ill

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And in this particular lesson today,  we're going to take a look at phrasal  

verbs related to health. Advanced  phrasal verbs related to health.

Now remember some of these phrasal verbs. You  could probably use them in other situations,  

but here we're focusing only on the  aspect relating to health. Okay,  

so if there are other situations well,  well and good we can do them again. Or  

you can mention them to me. But this  is focusing on the aspects of health.

There's a shortlist of ten. I'll go through  them with you, give you some simple examples,  

and hopefully you'll get to understand them. So  hopefully you're all in good health. So sit back  

and switch on. And as you know, you've got  you know what's going to happen. I'm going  

to give you the list. I'll read through  it and I'll give you some examples okay.

So let's go

To get over something. Well, if you've suffered

recently from Covid,

then you will be glad to get over. It means it's  finished and it's over. It can take some time. So  

you've had a bout of flu, or you've had Covid,  or you've had the measles. Whatever you've had,  

you eventually will get over it, meaning  you will recover and you will begin to  

feel yourself again. So oh, I'm glad  to see that Mary got over that flu.

It was really bad, but she's feeling a  lot better now. How's your father? Did  

he get over those shingles? Yes. It's very, very  painful. I understand I haven't had it myself,  

but I'm glad to hear that he  has got over it. Okay. Get over.

Number two to come down with  something or to go down with something

Or I think I've come down with the flu. So I'm  going to have to give the party a miss, okay. Or  

he's gone down with some illness. He's not going  to be able to play the match tomorrow. Will you be  

able to find somebody else to play instead of him?  So to come down with or to go down with something.

Means to catch an illness, a flu, a virus,  

something that means you have to stay  in bed or stay off work or miss school,  

whatever. So to come down with or to  go down with something means to catch,

an illness, catch a virus, catch a disease,

To get through something. Well,  when we get through an illness  

we battle our way through. Perhaps  we stay in bed for a few days. We

cough and sneeze. We sweat a little  bit. We're not able to eat. We have  

to take some medicine or go and visit the  doctor. But finally we get through it. Oh,  

I'll get through it somehow.  Everybody else has. It's not so

important. I'm not the only one who suffered from  it. I'll get through it. Oh, I'm glad to see.

that you finally got through that illness.  So all examples and ways in which we can  

use it. But to get through means to  find your way from the beginning and  

hopefully to the end satisfactory,  so that you return to full health

To pick something up. Now again, remember this  is focusing specifically on health. Because we  

can pick something up at the supermarket and  we can pick something up off the floor. But  

when you pick something up from a health point  of view, you pick up some disease or you pick up  

some infection. Oh, I'm going to have to  go to the doctor with that foot of mine.

I think I picked something up in the swimming  pool. Means I got a little fungal infection  

or something like that. Yeah. So you go  to the doctor and the doctor says, yeah,  

that looks like a verruca or whatever, and  they give you some treatment for that. So to  

pick something up means to have caught or got the  infection, depending on where you were in the gym,

in the shower, this is when you should always  wear flip flops or something like that. But you  

pick something up, pick something up on your  travels. you know, I've been travelling a lot  

lately here and there. And, you know, with  the way the air circulates in the planes,  

you're bound to pick up something.  You're bound to get some infection.

You're bound to feel unwell, to pick up something.

To cut something out. Well, when we cut  something out, we can cut it out of our

diet. Yeah. Okay, so you go to the doctor.  You're a little bit overweight. The blood  

pressure's a little bit high. Sounds  like me. And the doctor says I think  

you need to cut something out of your diet.  What do you eat on a regular basis? So you  

give them the list of it is. And he said,  yeah, well, I think there's your problem.

You need to cut those things out, not  cut them down. Cut them out. Okay. So  

cut something out of your diary... Of your ...  sorry, out of your diet means that you don't  

take it or eat it anymore. And in which  case then: A) you’ll lose weight. B) your

blood pressure should improve. So  to cut something out of your diet.

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To cut down on something. Well, here is the,  

you know, not so serious or drastic. So when  the doctor tells you to cut something out,  

he doesn't want you to take it at all. But  he, when he asks you to cut down on something,  

then it's not so serious. So perhaps one  glass of wine instead of three, or perhaps,

meat three times a week, not seven. Or perhaps  potatoes once or twice, not every day. So you cut  

down on certain foods so that your intake is lower  and therefore your health will improve. Okay,  

so cut down on something. You might be cutting  down on smoking. Yeah. Or you might be cutting  

down on alcohol consumption. It's something  that is less than what it was previously.

To throw up. Well, I'm fortunate we've  all done this. To throw up means when  

you're sick and you vomit. Yeah. You don't  feel so good. Yeah. So an upset stomach,

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Unknown viral infection.  

Some bad food you ate. Something happened  and you don't feel so well. And you end up

vomiting on a regular basis, and, oh,  he can't go to work today. He's been  

throwing up all night. I mean, it's  terrible listening. And he's he's  

really exhausted. He didn't sleep at all. So  I think 24 hours, one of those 24 hour bugs.

He’ll be fine tomorrow.

To swell up. Okay. You're walking along  the street and you turn your ankle,  

you go over a stone or something happens and  you hear that look. Yeah. So you limp home,  

and when you take your shoe off, your ankle  goes up like a little football or like a little  

melon. So it's twice the size. It should be. So it  will swell up as soon as you take off your shoe.

What I would do, I sit, that's what I would  do, is just put some ice and some cold,

things. A bag of peas or something from the  the fridge or the freezer. And then if it  

continues like that, then you might need  to go to the the doctor or the hospital to  

have it X-rayed. But usually it's some  form of a sprain rather than a break.  

And when the swelling goes down, you'll be  able to check out what the real damage is.

So to swell up means something gets bigger. You  get an infection under your arm or in your leg  

or a mosquito bite. It will certainly swell up,  and the next day it will be the size of a little,

golf ball or a marble or something like  that. And as itchy as hands are to swell up

To pass out. Well, when somebody passes out, they  faint or they go unconscious. They fall down.

The swoon is an old fashioned word they  use for that. So he passed out at the  

sight of the needle. One of my sons and he's  a pharmacist. But he doesn't like needles,  

and so he gets a little bit squeamish  when he sees them. So he's not a guy who  

can go and give blood so easily.  But if you pass out, you faint.

Somebody has to splash some cold  water on your face or do something  

to try and bring you around to, to  regain consciousness or to pass out.

It was really, really hot in the office. I got up,  

but I passed out and fell on the floor and  somebody had to help me to pass out to faint.

And then finally to come round. Well,  this is the action. When you have fainted,  

when somebody splashes that water on your face,  

when you're sitting up and feeling better, you  come round. Oh, look, she's finally come around.  

Great. I thought it was something serious.  Perhaps it's just the heat. It is really,  

really warm outside. So to come round means to  your health improve and you regain consciousness.

So it's nothing to do with coming  round for a cup of coffee. Coming  

round for tea. It's to come round to  regain consciousness, regain your,

your lucid and your talking again  because you just happened to faint.

Okay. So those are the particular,

aspects of these phrasal verbs  related to your health. And I  

said only to your health because they  do in some cases have other meanings.

Okay, let's give them to you  again. So I said there's only ten  

to get over. Something. To come down  with something. To get through something  

or to get through it. To pick something up an  infection to cut something out, to cut down on,  

something to throw up, to swell up, get bigger.  To pass out, and then the opposite to come around.

Well, I hope you understand those. I hope  you get the the meaning. If you don't,  

then go back over them a second  time. But those ones are reasonably,

Good. I mean, they're, they're reasonably easy to,  to use that something that are in general use. And  

you have I'm sure you've heard of a few of them  from time to time. So they're not so difficult.  

But if you do have any difficulties, come back  and we'll give you some more clearer examples.

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