English Phrasal verbs

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Two and three part phrasal verbs -explained in english

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Live up to

Meet someones expectations

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Walk out on

Abandon someone

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Fit in with

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

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4

Catch up with

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

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Get on with

Have a good relationship with someone

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Sign up for

Join something, agree to something

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Go through with

To do something difficult or unpleasant that has already been promised

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8

Put up with

Accept someone who behaves unpleasantly

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Run out of

To use up all supplies

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10

Set off

Begin a journey

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11

Broke down

Machine stopped working

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12

Ended up

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

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13

Get off

Leaving a place (bus) or escaping a punishment

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14

Bumped into

Unexpectedly meet someone

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15

Brought up

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

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16

Found out

To learn, discover something

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17

Come into

Suddently receive money or property (especially by inheriting it)

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18

Set up

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

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19

Sort out

To resolve a problem or difficulty

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20

Take me on

To fight or compete against someone

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21

Turned down

To refuse something (offer)

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22

Clocked in

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

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23

Had a go at

To criticize, often aggressively

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Telling (me) off

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

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25

Got over

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

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26

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)

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Turned out

To discover something or result of something

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Blown up

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

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Fallen through

To stop or fail

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30

Pulled out of

To leave or no longer be involved in something

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31

Get away with

To escape blame or punishment when you do something wrong

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32

Let down

To disappoint someone

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33

Went on

To continue

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34

Lay off

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

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35

Go ahead

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

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36

Stormed out

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

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Put me through

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

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Work out

To exercise, to achieve or solve something

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