English Phrasal verbs

Two and three part phrasal verbs -explained in english

Live up to

Meet someones expectations

Walk out on

Abandon someone

Fit in with

Be accepted by other people in a group, belong in the group

Catch up with

Meet again after long period of time, talking about what happened

Get on with

Have a good relationship with someone

Sign up for

Join something, agree to something

Go through with

To do something difficult or unpleasant that has already been promised

Put up with

Accept someone who behaves unpleasantly

Run out of

To use up all supplies

Set off

Begin a journey

Broke down

Machine stopped working

Ended up

To reach a place or achieve a situation after other activities or unexpectedly

Get off

Leaving a place (bus) or escaping a punishment

Bumped into

Unexpectedly meet someone

Brought up

Look after a child until it is an adult or mention something in a conversation

Found out

To learn, discover something

Come into

Suddently receive money or property (especially by inheriting it)

Set up

To start, build something (to set up a business)

Sort out

To resolve a problem or difficulty

Take me on

To fight or compete against someone

Turned down

To refuse something (offer)

Clocked in

Arrive at work and out a special card into device to show what time you arrived

Had a go at

To criticize, often aggressively

Telling (me) off

To tell someone that they have done something wrong and you are angry about it

Got over

To start to feel happy or well again after something bad has happened to you

Make up for

To do something as a way of correcting something else (you did something wrong but you made up for it by doing something good)

Turned out

To discover something or result of something

Blown up

To become very popular, to explode, to be very angry

Fallen through

To stop or fail

Pulled out of

To leave or no longer be involved in something

Get away with

To escape blame or punishment when you do something wrong

Let down

To disappoint someone

Went on

To continue

Lay off

Discharge a worker temporarily or permanently because of a shortage of work

Go ahead

When someone says “go ahead”, he means “sure, do it”

Stormed out

To quickly leave a place when you are angry or upset about something

Put me through

To pay for someone to attend school or to make someone exxperience something unpleasant

Work out

To exercise, to achieve or solve something