COME UP WITH - Learn English Phrasal Verbs!

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Hello! This is Jack from tofluency.com. Now, before I talk about the phrase and
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the phrasal verb for this lesson, I want to just tell you to get my free book.
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So, if you don't have this already, then click the link in the description or
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up here somewhere, and it will take you to a page where you can enter your details
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and download my book for free.
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I'm getting so many emails telling me how helpful this book is and I want you
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to get it
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- now if you already have the book, then consider get in my audio book as well -
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and I'll leave a link again around this page somewhere appear in the description;
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in the comments, so that you can learn more about this audio book. The other day
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I was talking to my wife about my teaching business and I love it when we
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can get time to talk about this because my wife comes up with some really good
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ideas from time to time.
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Ok, so I used the phrasal verb there: to come up with - to come up with something,
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or to come up with an idea, and this just means to generate an idea or to think
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about an idea.
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So, we use this a lot when we're talking about being creative; when we're thinking
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about solutions for problems or just thinking about ideas in general.
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Now, what I said to her was this: you always come up with good ideas
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you always come up with good ideas.
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Now, if you're talking to someone and they come up with a bad idea, something
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that you can say to them is this: is that the best you can come up with? Is that
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the best you can come up with? And basically, you're letting them know that
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their idea isn't very good.
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Is that the best you can come up with? There's another phrase I want to share
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and I used this with my wife before we had a conversation,
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and I usually ask her this question: can I bounce some ideas off you? Can I bounce
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some ideas off you?
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And what this means is that I want to tell my wife
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some ideas that I have - to tell her about the ideas that I've come up with, and if I
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want to bounce ideas off her, and I want her to listen and for her to give me
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feedback.
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So, this is a great phrase to use if you want feedback on your ideas:
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can i bounce some ideas off you? I have one more example to share and then a
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question for you. Now,
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in my case, I come up with my best ideas in the shower.
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So, when I'm in the shower, I always come up with my best ideas -
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it's never when I'm at work but it's when I'm taking a shower.
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What I want to know is this: where do you come up with your best ideas?
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So, in which situations do you come up with your best ideas?
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I'm looking forward to reading your response, so please leave a comment below.
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If you have found this lesson useful, please share with your friends and I'll
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see you in the next video!
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