so let's get started let's learn some phrasal verbs which contain in to opt in when you opt in to something it means you say that you consent to doing it or you choose the option and agree to it often times when we are filling out forms online there will be an option to opt into something for instance when you purchase something from a store online usually there is a box that you can check that says you opt in to receive the Weekly Newsletter the opposite of opting into something is of course opting out of it which would mean to not agree or not consent to it to see in when you see in it means you have a small view of something that you can look with your eyes into now we're going to talk about the difference between seeing in and looking in when you see something it means you're just looking with your eyes you just happen to see it sometimes if you're trying to figure out if a store is open or closed it might be hard to see in the window to figure out if there's anyone inside so if there's a small window you might look and you might be able to see in to look in means to briefly check or examine something now emphasis on quickly check it so the difference between to see with your eyes and to look is when you're looking at something you're examining it and you're probably touching it or getting close to it to investigate as well so you might say I can't see into the window this just means your eyes can't see it but if you need to go find something you might say I need to go look in the fridge to see if we have any fresh vegetables this means you're going to examine the fridge you might move some things around when you open it to find the vegetables you're going to look in to sit in when you sit in a meeting or an event it usually means that you are not an active part participant you are just observing you're just there you're sitting in so sometimes in colleges and universities in the United States you have the opportunity to sit in on classes that you're not registered for or you're not actually in the class you are not a part of the class but you can just sit in the lecture which means you'll just be listening and not participating you won't have to do the quizzes or exams because you're not actually registered or signed up for the class you're just sitting in so you could sit in on a meeting which just means that you are going to observe the meeting turn in when you turn in something you either hand it to someone or you submit it online when you again are in a college your professor or your lecturer might tell you when you need to turn in an assignment so this is the day that the assignment needs to be submitted by or you could say I thought I turned it in on time that means I thought I submitted the assignment or the document on time now let's talk about some important phrasal verbs with the particle out to opt out of something means the exact opposite of opting into it except when you opt out you have to make sure that you explicitly say or you make it clear that you do not consent to something so there's usually an option to opt out or decline something if it's on a form or on some sort of online registration a lot of times in the United States we don't have government health care so your health care comes through your employer so you can sign up and they give a portion of the money that they pay you to pay for your health care or you can opt out of the health care which means that maybe you get health care from the person you're married to they have health care through their work and they have a family plan or you have some other health care so you're opting out or declining your company's health insurance or healthare see out so we can talk about see out in two different ways we can say that we can see out of a window which means we are able to look with our eyes out of a window or we can talk about when we're seeing someone out which means we're walking them out of a meeting or we're walking them out of a building or we're making sure that they get out of our house safely and we're just being friendly a really common phrase with this phrasal verb is to say I will just see myself out that means I don't need to be walked out I'll just go or if you have a friend to your house and you want to walk them to their car out of your house you can say I will see you out watch out this is a very very important phrasal verb which means be cautious or be alert so if you have a friend that's going camping you might tell them watch out for Bears this means be cautious in case there's bears in the woods because in many places in United States there are black bears in the woods or you can use this phrase watch out very urgently if something is flying through the air you tell your friend watch out that means look out you know be careful cuz something is going to hit you this is a very very important phrasal verb watch out to click out when you click out of something means you close an application or you close a window on your computer and this is mainly used for computers not tablets or smartphones because we use a mouse we used to use a physical Mouse most of the time on our laptops or computers the other day I was buying a gift for someone and they were coming up behind me so I clicked out of the window very quickly this means you close the window very quickly wash out when when you wash out something you clean out dirt or anything that's dirty or impure inside of a glass or you could wash out a shirt or you could wash out any sort of container a really important example of this phrasal verb that comes to my mind is when I have coffee in a coffee cup I wash it out really good so that if I want to have tea later I don't taste the coffee from earlier so you need to wash it out with water and soap so that your tea doesn't taste like coffee or if you have some stains on your shirt you got very dirty you could say I need to wash out the stains in the laundry dump out when you dump out a container it means you quickly take everything out you put it all out of the container because maybe you're trying to find something or maybe you just need it out very quickly when I was a kid I had a very disorganized backpack and when I needed to find something I would literally have to dump out my backpack which means turn it upside down and have everything come out in order to find something luckily as an adult I'm much more organized I would not have to dump out my backpack anymore pour out we use pour out when we're talking about liquids you can say I'm going to dump out this water but you can also sandwood to pour out this water you can only use pore when you're talking about liquid or something that comes out like a liquid this phrasal verb is used a lot when cooking so you'll have a recipe that might say pour a cup of milk into the soup or pour the salt into the soup salt is not technically a liquid but you could say pour it in there or you could just say dump it in there set out when you set out to do something you begin a journey with an intention or a task that you have to do at the beginning of a trip you might say we are setting out on our trip today that means you're setting out to go on a trip somewhere or in movies the characters might be setting out on a mission that means they are beginning a mission maybe they're going to save someone for me I'm setting out to have a million subscribers on YouTube so make sure you're subscrib to English with Kayla and you like this video let out when you let out someone or something you are letting them come out of a small confined situation or a small confined room or Container for instance you might need to go home to let out your dogs that means you need to let out your dogs outside to go to the bathroom or to stretch out and get some exercise when you are in school you might get let out early that means your teacher in the school releases all of the students outside of the building early for the day or if you're trapped inside of a room you can say let me out and one other really important use of this phrasal verb is if you are trying to be quiet but you have a sound that comes out of your mouth you can say I let out a sound or if you were trying to hold your cough you might accidentally let out a cough or a noise keep out when you are trying to keep someone or something out it means you're trying to prevent them from entering the space this again is a super super important phrasal verb because in the United States when there is private property or a business or building that you are not permitted or allowed to enter there will often be a sign that says keep out this means do not go in there you are not allowed to go in there a good example of this is we try to keep out Mice from our homes in the United States so we use poison or we use traps in order to keep out the mice or there might be a construction zone that says keep out because there is machinery and equipment that could be dangerous to people if they enter the construction zone let's review some important phrasal verbs with on in them clip on when something Clips on it attaches with what we call a clip a really important example of this is when you have a badge or a name tag it usually Clips on to your shirt this of course is different than sticking on a clip is clipped on and sometimes men who don't know how to tie a tie especially young men will wear a clip on tie that just Clips right onto their shirt add on we use this phrasal verb addon when you need to add something in a situation that normally wouldn't be there or you can include something that would not normally be there for instance when you order food food from a restaurant especially take out in the United States they might ask you if you want to add on a dessert or add on an appetizer so this is something that you did ask for but maybe they'll give you a deal if you add it on and restaurants in the United States really really believe in the power of suggestion meaning if they ask you to add on a dessert you probably are likely to say yes do you have a favorite sports team that you cheer on when you cheer on someone or something like a team it means you are hoping that they are successful or you hoping that they win and you're letting everyone know last summer I ran a race and my whole family was there to cheer me on or if you were watching the World Cup and you were from Argentina of course you were cheering on your team which means you were letting everyone know that you wanted your team to win you were actively supporting them so you can use this in a casual conversation if you're supporting someone I'm cheering them on or you can use this in a more cheering Sports situation where you're literally cheering and shouting for someone to win sleep on so this is a phrasal verb but this is actually an idiom too when we say that we want to sleep on something it means we want to give a decision time and we want to think about a decision that we're going to make to make sure that we truly believe in what we want to do and make sure that it's a good decision often times when you get a job offer it's important to sleep on it for one night that means give it one day to think about it and then accept or decline the job offer make sure that you sleep on important decisions keep on when you tell someone to keep on it means they should not quit even when faced with a challenge a common phrase with this phrasal verb keep on is you say I'm going to keep on trying even though it's difficult or if you want to tell someone that what they're doing is good you can say keep on doing that or keep on doing that good work drag on when something drags on it means it extends for a long period of time and it feels like it's taking a long time and usually when something drags on it means it's boring so this is a negative phrasal verb if you are working and you're in a business meaning and it's just so War it feels like it's lasting forever you can say the meeting is dragging on or if you're trying to give a speech or a lecture and you want it to be interesting but you don't want to talk for too long you could say I don't want to drag on take on when you accept or assume responsibility for something you are taking on the responsibility or you could say I'm going to take on that challenge or take on that task it means you're accepting it it's important important to be ambitious in your work and in your school so if you can take on leadership that is very important that means you try to be the boss or the manager of something and you take it on you take on the responsibility leave on when you keep something the way it is especially something that has electricity you can say you are keeping it on in the United States we always say don't keep on the lights if you're not home because it's wasting electricity so when we say don't keep on the lights it means turn them off and don't just leave without first turning off the electricity or the light switch and of course the opposite of leaving on something is leaving off something so you could say leave off the lights I'm trying to sleep that means don't turn on the lights in this room because I want it to be dark leave them off press on there are two very very useful definitions to this phrasal verb first we can press something on so if something has stick to it like tape you can say I'm going to press on that tape or I'm going to press on your name tag a name tag that sticks to your shirt you can also use this phrase to mean don't give up so even though English is difficult to learn and sometimes you feel like you're not getting better it's important to press on that means keep going even if it's challenging run on when something runs on it means we're talking about the duration of it we often use this phrasal verb when it comes to speeches or presentations so in the past tense we can say their speech ran on for 40 minutes that means the duration of their speech was 40 minutes and usually if we're saying something ran on or something is running on it's used in a negative way it means it's taking up a lot of time unnecessarily so you could say their speech started to run on for so long that the audience lost their interest in it work on when we want to say that we are dedicating some time and effort to something we can say we are working on it or if you want to tell someone that you don't have the answer or you don't have the solution to something but you're trying to find the answer or solution you can use this phrasal verb you can say we are working on it right now now in the United States a lot of people especially like myself pick up our groceries from the store so we just park our car and usually we send them a message on the phone and they bring out the groceries now today I was waiting for my groceries and it took over a half an hour for them to bring the groceries out and I didn't see anyone and I had my kids in the car so I called them and they say we are working on it that means they don't have them ready but they're trying to get them ready and it turns out that they was an error and they were super busy so I was understanding I never am rude to people but it took them a long time to work on my groceries EG on to egg on a behavior or a person means you're provoking them you're encouraging whatever they're doing and usually we use this phrasal verb when we're talking about negative or risky Behavior a lot of times when someone's doing something dangerous let's say climbing a tree and their friends are saying yes climb higher it we'll say hey hey don't egg them on that means don't encourage this Behavior now that we've reviewed our phrasal verbs that end with on let's switch to the particle off the first phrasal verb is nod off so when someone starts to sleep we say they are nodding off and of course we had the president of the United States nod off during a un meeting once and it was so embarrassing that means he started to fall asleep during the meeting is terrible take off there are two important meanings to this FR verb the first if you take off somebody it means you annoy them or make them angry traffic was so bad and I was starting to get really ticked off this is an informal way to say I was getting upset and angry do not use ticked off in a formal situation to say you were angry but in a formal situation you can say take off to me check off or remove something from a list for instance you might be really busy at work and you could say I'm trying to take off a few things off my list today so this is used instead of saying check off or get done another way to say that we are annoyed is to say piss off or pissed off if you are annoyed you can say I am pissed off if you make someone annoyed or angry you can say I piss them off and of course in the United States his off is used completely different than in the UK and I'm not from the UK so don't learn that definition from me if you speaking English there one way that you can really piss me off is being late when we have a set meeting time live off when you want to say that you are depending on something especially some money you can say you are living off of it in the United States when people retire they will live off their pension or we have a fund that we call our 401K so that's money that we've been saving for many many years that we can live off of when we stop working so this means it would be enough money to sustain our needs like buying food and paying for a house and things like that call off when you call off an event it means you cancel it many times a baseball game will get called off if there is too much rain and especially if there is is lightning this means we cancel it we say it's not going to happen pay off if you want to say that something is going to result in success after hard work and effort we can say it's going to pay off this is a really really useful phrasal word because you're studying English and it's going to pay off because English is so useful especially if you want to live in the United States lay off when the economy is bad there are going to be layoffs this means there is going to be people that get fired or terminated from their job because there is just not enough money in the business or things are not looking good in the economy if your company is trying to cut costs they might lay off or fire some employees so layoff is a more formal way to say fire someone or terminate them trade off when you trade off something it means means you exchange it for another thing so sometimes my husband and I trade off taking care of our kids so that the other person can enjoy some relaxing time or they can get some work done and then we'll trade off again and the other person will take care of the kids another way you can use this phrasal verb is if there's a compromise maybe you can say I like where I live it's very affordable but the trade off is that I have to commute a long time to work that means it takes you a long time to drive but the tradeoff is it's cheaper to live in the place so there's a compromise involved one thing compromises for the other it's a tradeoff push off when you decide to begin something you can say we're going to push off and this phrasal verb is especially useful if you are in a boat cuz you need to push off the dock and you need to start going if you want to say you are physically pushing something in order to start going you can say you're pushing off of it to show off is also a very common phrasal verb in the United States when you are showing off something it means you are drawing a lot of attention to an ability that you have a talent or something that you own that you think is really just special and everyone should look at a lot of people do not like when others show off especially if they are showing off fancy clothes or fancy cars or whatever it may be but sometimes we can use this phrasal verb in a positive way you might say oh I want to show off my new phone I got to you you might think it's interesting this just means you want to draw attention to it you want to show your friend how cool it is and they probably will like to see it as well after this English lesson I encourage you to show off all of the new phrasal verbs that you learn that means use them all in your conversation because people will be impressed by all of your new English knowledge set off another another way to say that you are beginning a journey or a trip is to say you are setting off another way we can use this phrasal verb is if something is going to ignite or start we can say we are setting it off for instance if you walk into a house and open the door really quickly and an alarm system starts blaring or sounding you're can say oh no we set off the alarm or you can say we set off the timer that means the timer started to make noise let off when you let off something or someone it means you are going to release them or release whatever it might be a really common phrase is we're going to let off some steam now if you're cooking and you let steam out of the pot you let off the steam it mean you let it escape from the pot you're cooking in but we use this idiom to say we are going to just kind of relieve some stress so maybe if you're really annoyed with with someone and stressed out about it you talk about it to your friend and you say I'm just letting off steam I feel better now or if you're going to just relax since you've been stressed out you can say I'm just letting off some steam another common way we use this phrasal verb is we want to say that we are going to leave work it's our time to go we can say I was let off work at 4: I'm going to be let off work early this means you're going to be released from work early when something makes a laugh noise or becomes active you can say it's going off so again if you have an alarm that's sounding either in the morning or an alarm system like a fire alarm you can say it's going off when it starts to make noise or you could say my alarm went off at 6:00 in the morning that means that was a time that you set your alarm for and it started making noise other things that can go off are fireworks like big lights or you could say a siren went off that means it started flashing and making noise at the same time so when something goes off it just is loud and bright dry off when you want to say that you are removing the wetness from something or the water you can say you are drying it off after a shower you have to dry off your body or if you're out in the rain and you get all wet you might say I need to go inside and dry off fight off when you fight off someone or something you defend from it very aggressive I ly or you are successful when you're defending against it a common way to use this rasal verb is you can say I'm fighting off a cold that means you're trying to get healthy maybe you're eating healthy you're drinking orange juice and vitamin C so that you don't get sick you're biting off the cold you're not completely sick yet but you might start to get sick or if you were fighting an animal like a bear you could say I'm fighting off a bear that means you're trying to get the bear to go away you're defending yourself or your family let's move on to some phrasal verbs containing after look after when you look after someone or something you are taking care of it when I was a kid I was in charge of looking after my brother that means I would make sure he's safe and take care of him or you might ask someone to look after your pet like your dog or your cat when you're on vacation that means they're taking care of them to take after when you say that someone takes after another person it means they resemble them in some way we often use this phrasal verb when we're talking about a family so we could say the son takes after his father that means he either looks like him or acts like him or you can say wow you really take after your sister that means you resemble your sister so this phrasal verb take after is used mainly to talk about family members that resemble each other to run around after some people or some tasks means you're spending a lot of effort dealing with these things so let me give you a few examples of this phrasal verb I couldn't get any work done because I was running around after my kids this is used very informally to say you were taking care of your kids you were playing with your kids whatever your kids needed you were involved in that activity so you couldn't do your work or maybe you are at your job and you can say I've been running around after these sales all day that means you've been dealing with whatever you're selling and you haven't been able to accomplish anything else so it just means that you are dealing with something and it's kind of chaotic and it's keeping you very busy it's a great informal phrasal verb to use to run around after something if you are literally running and chasing something you can say you are chasing after it or you are chasing after the person if there is a criminal on the loose the police will be chasing after them or if your dog is running outside you could say I'm chasing after my dog that means you're trying to catch up to your dog and you're literally running to catch them go after when you go after something you're usually talking about a goal or ambition that you are really really trying hard to accomplish so maybe you are working a job but it's really your dream to be a single and one day you go after your dream of being a singer that means you try to accomplish that goal it's important to go after your dreams or try to do the things that you really really want to do to get after someone means that you are trying to encourage someone or a group of people to do something so you're being really really encouraging this phrasal verb is super important in sports the coach will get after the team if they're not working hard and they'll say come on we can do this we can win you guys need to work harder they're getting after their team our last group of phrasal verbs all use before when you say that something comes before you can say that it literally is coming before in chronological order so lunch comes before dinner or breakfast comes before lunch or you can use this phrasal verb to mean that something is more important than another thing so for me my children come before anything else that means they're more important than anything else and this is a very common way to use this phrasal verb or you can say School comes before Sports so for kids or for adults that are in college it's more important to focus on school work than sports or if you think work is more important than play you can say work comes before play this means maybe the time of work comes before play but also it's just more important to you and another phrasal verb that's just like this one is put before when you want to say that something will be more important than another thing or you're choosing for it to be more important you can say it's put before so their needs are put before my needs or you can say work is put before play this means it's more important than go before this phrasal verb can be used to say that you are going to appear in front of people a lot of times this phrasal verb is used in the legal sense someone will go before a judge this means they will appear in front of a judge in a courtroom or you can say the lawyer is going to go before the judge and argue for his client this means they're going to appear or start talking in the courtroom to come up with when you come up with something you think of something new a new idea it can be very challenging to come up with a cre creative idea go through when you go through something or if you go through many things you are examining them carefully whenever you lose your phone you have to go through all of the items in your house or if you lose your phone in your car you have to go through your car to try to find your phone pick up when you pick up something you retrieve it for example my friend was going to loan me a dress to wear to wedding and I texted her that I would pick up the dress in the afternoon I had to go to her house to retrieve the dress to pick something up to put off when you put off something it means you postpone it or you procrastinate it a lot of people put off studying for important test until the last minute they procrastinate and they don't study until right before the test they put it off to look up to look up something means to search for information so if you are researching something you probably need to use Google to look up facts and to look up information about your topic a really common way we use this phrasal verb is if you don't know something and you want to know the answer you'll say I'm going to look it up right now take off so we use this phrasal verb to mean to leave quickly most commonly I think of this phrasal verb as talking about a plane when does your plane take off because planes airplanes are of course so quick when they leave the runway you can also say we are going to take off at 4:00 this means we're going to leave the house quickly at 4:00 we usually use this when we're talking about leaving pretty soon in the future put down when we say that we are going to put down something we mean we are going to write it down quickly a common phrase with this phrasal verb is to say I had a hard time putting down into words what I want to say this means I'm having a hard time writing something another way that this phrasal verb is used commonly is if people say how many people are going to come to the wedding and you can say put me down for two or put me down for three basically you're answering their question and saying write me down or schedule me for two or three or whatever your answer is so put down it means writing down but it can also mean that you're scheduling something to put up with do you put up with annoying people if you put up with them it means that you tolerate them one thing that I do not put up with in life is Liars I do not tolerate people who tell lies I won't put up with it to make make up to make up something means to invent it when I was a child I would make up a lot of games for my friends and me to play to turn down to turn down something or someone means to reject it or to reject the person it could be really heartbreaking to be turned down from a job or to be turned down from an important opportunity that you had to apply for if you are offered a job and you do not want to take the job you can say I'm going to turn down the job this means I'm going to reject it and this would not be considered rude to say I will turn down the opportunity to put aside when you put something aside it means you're saving it for later so you remove it and you save it for later a really common way that we use this phrasal verb is when we put aside money we put aside money to save for later if you're you're saving up to buy a car when you get your paycheck you'll put aside some money another way we can say this is to say set aside it means the exact same thing if you're saving some food for someone coming to your house later you could say I'm going to set aside this plate of food for our guest to turn up so if something or someone turns up it means it arrives or appears unexpectedly when you have some something in your house turn up it means it was something that was lost long ago and you suddenly find it even though you were not exactly searching for it if you have a stray or lost cat or dog turn up to your house it means you weren't looking for that animal but they appeared at your house and now you need to find the owner because they just turned up to get away with something if you get away with something it means you escaped a punishment even though you are guilty of a crime or guilty of a wrongdoing another common way this phrasal verb is used is when you want to say that you are going to try to do something that's not exactly the norm or not exactly common for most people but you don't want people to notice let me give you an example do you think I can get away with wearing this outfit to the business meeting in this example I'm probably wearing an outfit that is more more casual so clothing that isn't exactly super professional or fancy but do you think I can get away with it do you think it looks okay enough to wear another example is if you are cooking food for let's say five people you could say do you think I can get away with just making chicken and potatoes this means do you think there'll be enough food for these five people do you think I can get away with it or will there not be enough food so you can talk about getting away with a crime or just getting away with something that's a little bit abnormal to take in if you take in something it means that you're understanding it you're kind of processing it in your mind if somebody gives you some shocking information something very surprising or very tragic you might need a few extra minutes to take in the information and just kind of process it emotionally another common way that this phrasal verb is used is if you want to say you're going to look at a beautiful view typically of nature but sometimes you could be in a city as well you could say I'm going to take in the view this means I'm just going to look and appreciate what it looks like outside right now to take over when you take over something it means you are assuming control or getting power over it if the owner of a company dies it's very common for their son or their daughter to take over the company so to own the company now and control the entire company if you want someone else to take some responsibility or to do a task for you that you're currently doing you can say do you want to take over with this so on a long road trip once in a while if somebody needs a break they could say does anyone want to take overdriving to bring up if you bring up something it means you mention it one thing in the United States that you should never bring up at a family dinner or any sort of dinner with people you don't know super super well is politics if you bring up politics it can start a lot of arguments so don't mention it to take out if you take out something it means you remove it you can also use this phrasal verb in the same way you would use get when you want someone want to get something so that you can use it so for instance you could say can you take out a pencil I need a pencil to write with to fill in if you want someone to fill in something it means you want them to complete it a really common way this phrasal verb is used in the United States is if you need someone to fill in their name on a form so fill in your information please this would be like a government document or a document at a medical office that you need information on you're going to fill it in to put on when you are putting on clothes it means you're going to wear the clothes another way that this phrasal verb is commonly used is if we say someone is putting on an act or putting on a character this means that the person is acting not exactly like their normal personality so if you're putting on an act it might mean you're acting more friendly than usual or if you're putting on um happiness it can mean you're actually sad inside you're just putting on an act like you're happy so that no one asks you why you're sad to run out of when you run out of something it means you don't have anymore you use it completely in my house I always try not to run out of toothpaste or toilet paper those are two very important things that you do not want to run out out of to take back to take back something means to return it you can say that you need to take back something that you borrowed from a friend when I borrowed a dress from my friend I had to take it back to her a week after we can also use this phrasal verb we're talking about returning an item to a store that we actually don't want to buy we can say I had to take back the dress to the store I did not want to buy it to work out if something works out it means it's a solution or it's solved so if a problem Works itself out this is a common phrase that means that you didn't have to make any effort things just worked out the problems were solved without anyone having to do anything bad we can also use this brasal verb to say that you need to solve a math problem and typically when we say can you work out this problem it means you need to solve it on paper to come across when you come across something it means you find it by chance we usually talk about coming across information or if you're just walking and you come across something interesting it means you find or see something interesting without actually looking for it in my everyday life I come across so many interesting English phrases that I have to teach to my English students to look after when when you look after something or someone it means that you're taking care of it or taking care of the person a lot of people in the United States will pay someone to look after their house and their pets when they go on vacation this job is called a house sitter and their job is to look after the house to put together when you put together something it means you assemble it or you build it if you've ever bought furniture from the store IKEA the Swedish store you have to put together all of the furniture none of it comes assembled or already put together you have to build it by yourself I enjoy putting together Furniture but many people do not like it and find it very challenging to put through to put someone through something is the most common way that this phrasal verb is used I'll give you the definition through these examples when my students are taking an English test they are put through a lot of stress so it means they experience a lot of stress through the process of having to study and take a test if you want to say to someone that you're sorry that you caus them stress or you caus them a lot of extra work you can say I'm so sorry to put you through that it means I'm so sorry that you had to have this experience because of me to hold on think of this phrasal verb like you're on the phone and someone asks you to hold and in real life we say can you hold on so on the telephone if someone needs you to wait for a moment they'll say could you please hold and in real life conversation speaking someone will say can you hold on for a moment a lot of times if my children are interrupting me I'll say hold on please to look into something if you look into something it means you're investigating it if you find a word in English that you're curious about the definition and you'd like to learn more about you can say I'm going to look into this word this means you're going to investigate it and research it once I was shopping for cars and I would have a list of the different cars that I liked and i' would go home and look into them later I would research if there were a good car if they would meet my needs that I needed for a car I had to look into it to come come back to come back to something means to return to it so often times we'll tell people come back and see me later if you're at a party and you're talking to a friend and your friend is going to talk to other people and you're going to talk to other people as well you could say make sure to come back to me and say hi again later this would be a really common way to say just return and let's talk again later but for now we're going to go our separate ways you can also come back to a topic of conversation so if you're in a meaning or if you're talking in a more formal context you could say let's come back to this later this means let's not talk about this now let's talk about it later and you might say this if you know you're running out of time or you just need more information before you can have a good discussion about a topic to carry on means to continue something this phrasal verb is most commonly used when you interrupt someone on accident and you politely want to say that they should just continue talking don't worry about you as an interruption you can say carry on please to come up if something comes up it appears suddenly so if you're watching TV and all of the sudden a monster is on the TV you could say all of the sudden a monster came up on the television or if something in a conversation comes up it means it's me mentioned to work on if you work on something it means you focus on it if you are trying to work on your English it means you're very focused on your English or you could say right now I'm not really working on my English but I'm trying to practice my French to drop off if you drop off something it means you deliver it if you have to drop off your child it means you need to get your child to either their daycare or their school or wherever they're going for the day to come out if something comes out it appears it's kind of like coming up but it usually means that it was hidden before it was hiding so you might say I'm going to come out of my room and talk to my roommates this means I'm going to get out of my room and appear in the living room so I can talk to my roommates to look out to look out for something means to be cautious about it or if you just want to tell someone to be cautious in general you can say hey look out and if something is going to hit someone you can say hey look out this means be cautious something is coming it's the most natural way to say this in English when something is happening very fast it's important if you are in the Midwest of the United States that you look out for coyotes especially if you have a pet dog because sometimes coyotes can be dangerous to small dogs or small pets that go outside to turn off if you turn turn off something it means you switch it off or you switch off the power so most commonly we say can you turn off the lights to take away to take away something means to remove it if you remove something as a punishment you can say I'm going to take away your Xbox for a week to make out to make out something means to understand it if you say I can't make out what you're saying this means I can't understand your words and usually we use this phrasal verb if you just can't quite hear everything that someone is saying especially if you're talking on the phone and for some reason the phone reception isn't great it will be hard to make out what someone is saying to look up to if you look up to someone it means you admire them often times your children will look up to you they really admire you and they want to be like you to run into if you run into someone it means you meet them unexpectedly I had coffee with my friend the other day but we didn't plan on it we just happened to run into each other at the store and then we went to get coffee to put up something means to build it or to display it in New York City they can put up high-rise buildings very quickly because they have so many people to work on it there when I was young I put up a sign on my bedroom door that said keep out because I didn't want my little brother going into my room to carry out if you carry out a plan it means you execute it or you complete it to turn out if something turns out it means it's the result this can be a really tricky or difficult phrasal verb for English Learners to use and to learn if you say that it turns out it's going to be sunny today it means it's kind of unexpected and maybe it wasn't sunny earlier in the day but in the end the result was it's sunny outside if you say it turns out that my favorite team won the game it means that maybe you turned off the TV and you didn't watch the entire game because you thought your team maybe you're watching soccer was going to lose but it turns out they were able to win so the result was they were able to win and when we use turn out it means it's unexpected to fall back on if you fall back on something or if you fall back on someone it means you rely on them when you fail so if you try to start a business it might be smart to have a job to fall back on so even if your business fails you can rely on a job to make money and support yourself to put through a common use of the phrasal verb to put through means to connect a phone call so if you call a business and you talk to the receptionist or the secretary and you say I need to talk to your boss she might say I will put you through with him this means I will connect your phone to his phone to look around when you look around it doesn't literally just mean that you're looking it mostly means that you're also going to walk around and explore when I go to the mall or shopping center I like to just look around at all the stores I don't absolutely have to buy things but it's fun to look around to pull off if you pull off something typically a plan it means you succeed with it when I was done with my last semester of college I said I am so happy that I pulled that off that means it was really hard work but I was able to succe Ed despite challenges and despite having to work really hard to come to to come to a conclusion is the most common way that we use this phrasal verb you can also say that someone is waking up from being past out or unconscious if they come to or if they were just asleep for a long time so often we say I've come to a realization this means that after learning a lot about something I realize you know the main idea or the most important thing I came to the realization that I need to study every day or my English won't improve to put off to put off something is another way to say that you're going to procrastinate it or delay it I really need to do the dishes but I typically put it off until later in the day and usually I have a sink full of dishes that I have to do before I go to bed I really shouldn't put it off to make do to make do with something means you're going to manage to do a task even though you have limited resources if someone says hey can you get this done by Friday you can say that's not a lot of time but I'll make do it means you'll finish the task despite not having all the resources that you need hi there are you ready to learn 50 of the most useful English phrasal verbs these Advanced phrasal verbs will will help you in your everyday English conversations there might be a few that are a review but today I have tons that are super useful and probably new to you and you've never heard before if you want this list of phrasal verbs in a PDF make sure you subscribe to my email list below by using the link in the description and it will email you a copy of this list plus the example sentences now let's get into it these first 10 phrasal verbs all contain the word down close down when something closes down or if you close down something it means it stops IT ceased to exist so for example during the pandemic there were many restaurants in my town that had to close down because they didn't have any customers wear down when something wears you down it means it makes you gradually very tired or sometimes we say if we wear someone down it means they aren't as patient or they'll finally say yes to requests that we've had for a long time because we've ask them so many times it's worn them down in college the constant studying always War me down by the end of my semester I would be so tired and I would not want to open any of my books cuz it just worn me down track down when you track down something it means you locate it or you find it or you can track down a person usually when you're trying to track something down or someone down it means that you've been looking for it or them for a long time for instance no matter what I seem to always be trying to track down my car keys when I get home I try to put them in the same place but sometimes I can't find them because I put them in a weird spot and then I have to track them down tear down when you tear down something you dis dismantle it you destroy it or you demolish it this just means you bring it down to the ground so this phrasal verb often refers to tearing down a building in the United States it's pretty common for older homes to be torn down so that the owners can build a nice brand new home and I think it's kind of sad because I think old homes are very Charming run down if you run someone down it means you chase after them to try to catch them this could be if you're kind of hunting them or if they forgot something and you wanted to run them down so you can give it to them so for instance one time I forgot my phone at a restaurant and the waiter ran me down in the parking lot and said hey you forgot your phone and it was so nice because I would have been really devastated if I lost my phone at that restaurant narrow down when you narrow down a list you're inducing the the amount of possibilities or choices so that you have a smaller set to choose from in the United States when you apply for a job typically they interview many people for that job but then they narrow down the candidates and then you have a second interview and sometimes they even narrow it down from there to two possible candidates and they interview you again for the job so when you're narrowing a list or set of options down you're decreasing the amount of options let down when you let someone down it means you disappointed them or you betrayed their trust so you lied to them for example you could say really let me down that you didn't come to my birthday party that means it disappointed Me Maybe the person said they would come and then they decided not to show up there are two other ways that we use this phrasal verb quite frequently that I wanted to talk about first is letting down your guard which means you know not being so cautious your your guard would be like the amount of cautiousness that you have or we can say that we let down our hair so if we have our hair up in a ponytail especially women and then we take it out and it's down like mine we say we let down our hair and that phrase to let down your hair is also used just to say that you feel very relaxed as well and not so worried keep down when you keep down something you control it or restrain it so we talk about keeping down our emotions keeping down our voice which would mean being quiet or we can say we need to keep down our expenses which means we should not spend too much money if you are in a library and you're talking very loudly the librarian or the person who works at the library will say hey keep down your voice please this means please be quiet talk quietly when someone cracks down on something it means they're taking actions to eliminate or reduce the amount of a bad behavior so they're being very strict if they're cracking down in the United States the government has really crack down on people who try to evade or not pay their taxes this means that there are really high penalties and you can even go to jail for not paying your taxes because the government has just cracked down on this crime cut down to cut down something means to reduce the amount that we do it or to reduce the size it can also quite literally mean to cut a tree or cut some sort of vegetation like a plant so we cut down a tree but more commonly when we say we're going to cut down on something it means we're going to try to do it less for instance many many people want to cut down on using their phone on screen time they don't want to be scrolling through apps so much so they try to cut down the the time that they use their phone next let's learn 10 phrasal verbs that contain the word up clog up when you clog up something you obstruct or block a passage an opening or a pipe that is supposed to be clear or free in the United States it's quite common to have a garbage disposal in your kitchen and the kitchen sink so you can put food down it and it will grind up the food so that the sink does not get clogged up but if you don't have a garbage disposal and you just put large chunks of food down your sink the drain or the pipe will get clogged up and that could lead to a big disaster tape up when you tape up something you close it or secure it with tape now tape is obviously a noun but you can use the word tape as a verb too I'm going to tape it or you can say I'm going to tape it up which means I'm going to close it with tape often times when I mail people packages I tape it up extra so that the package does not get opened while it's being delivered lace up a lace is a string so when you lace up something you tie it up or you tie it together with a string the most common way that we use this phrasal verb is we say we're going to lace up our shoes which means we're going to tie our shoes maybe because we're going for a run or we're going to be doing some sort of activity hike up when you hike up something you raise it significantly and quickly we typically use hike up when we're talking about a rate so a number or a price for instance in the United States the price of meat has really been hiked up in the last year it's very expensive right now to buy beef chicken or pork set up when you set up something you arrange assemble or organize it for instance recently I had a party and my friends asked me if they needed to come early to help me set up the party so that means putting out food getting the drinks ready getting balloons ready things like that were what we needed to set up for the party if you're organizing something and getting it ready you can say I'm going to set up this game for the children that means you're going to get it ready so that as soon as the children come they can play the game clear up when you clear up an area typically we're talking about a smaller area if it's a bigger area we do just say clean up but to clear up an area would mean to remove clutter or junk from a space so for instance you could say I'm going to clear up my desk so that I can get to work you can also clear up confusion this means that you make your idea more clear or understandable to someone by giving a better explanation so in this video I'm trying to clear up all of these phrasal verbs and if some of them are not cleared up for you make sure you use the link in the description so you can download the free PDF and get it emailed to your inbox wrap up when you wrap up an event or a meeting it means you're finishing everything so that it can be over or you can wrap up a project by doing the last steps to finish the project if you are in a meeting in a business meeting especially you can say it let's wrap up the meeting by just summarizing what we talked about and then we'll talk to you later that would be the end of the meeting also you can use wrap up to Simply mean cover something with cloth or to wrap it up with paper so for presents in the United States we almost always wrap up our presents in what we call wrapping paper so that the person can open it and have a good surprise work up when you work up something it means you're gener ating something we typically use this phrasal verb to say we're going to work up an appetite we're going to work up enthusiasm or we're going to work up a sweat which would mean we're getting really tired and hot or if you're laying in bed and you just feel really lazy you could say I need to work up the energy to go clean the house this means that you just kind of need to motivate yourself and find energy to get up out of bed and if you're scrolling on your phone or just watching Netflix it can be kind of hard to work up the energy to clean turn up so if someone or something turns up it's found unexpectedly or by chance so typically it means you weren't looking for them but they just come out of nowhere or you lost something a long time ago but it turns up months later because you just happen to look in a place that you weren't looking before have you ever lost something in your house and it turns up in your your refrigerator I'm talking about losing your car keys and typically why would you put your car keys in a refrigerator but maybe you're just having a weird day and you had just no mental power going and your keys ended up in your refrigerator that's where they turn up when you open it and of course a really common way to use turn up which is more literal is when we're talking about the volume or the intensity of something if you can't hear the music in the car you might ask someone to turn up the volume or you'll say can you turn up the music this means can you make it louder run up when you run up a bill or an expense it means you accumulate the amount of money that you own so if you go to a restaurant and you order a ton of food and drinks you may say that you ran up a really high bill at the restaurant or if it's very cold if you have a cold winter in the United States you'll want to turn your heat up so you'll run up a very large heating bill trying to keep your house warm we can also use run up to mean physically running up a hill or mountain or whatever it might be I'm going to run up the stairs really quick now we're going to go over or review a list of phrasal verbs that contain the word over just like go over which means to review hand over when someone hands over something they physically give it to someone else so if you are in a situation where someone is robbing you they'll say hand over all your money this means give me all your money or hand it over but sometimes this phrasal verb is used to transition as well so if you're in a business meeting you might say I'm going to hand over the conversation to you Kayla and this means that they were speaking but now it's your turn to be in control of the conversation so hand over over can mean physically hand over something or it can mean to just transfer power or transfer control to someone to hand over the power knock over when you knock over something you unintentionally or intentionally cause it to fall or be pushed one time I went to my cousin's party and I sat down and I immediately knocked over a drink I was so embarrassed so it was actually an accent I just moved my elbow the wrong way and somebody's drink was on the table next to me and it knocked over look over when you look over something you examine it you review it or you inspect it but you do it pretty casually or quickly so your teacher might say to you everybody look over your notes and then we will take the test this just means that they're going to give you a few minutes before the test to just look at your notes very quickly just to review in your head but it's it's not going to be a long time or you might ask someone if they could look over something that you've been working on to see if there are any errors that are very blaring to them so it would be like a big error but they're not going to look at it very very indepth or very thoroughly they're just looking it over quickly run over there are two pretty common ways to use this phrasal verb run over so if you run over something it typically is meaning that you are in a car and you hit or go over the thing so you could run over an animal with your car which would be very sad or maybe you could run over the grass which means you actually drive through the grass in somebody's yard in the United States we call holes in the road poth holes and you do not want to run over a pothole because you could get a flat tire another way that we use run over is very similar to look over it just means to do something something very quickly just to practice it or just look through it really quickly so you could run over your presentation before having to give it to an audience this just means you practice it very quickly maybe in your head or maybe just out loud but you're not giving the actual presentation stop over when you're saying that you're going to stop over somewhere it means you're going to stop very briefly and sometimes it means it's actually unplanned so for instance if you're talking to your friend and they say hey I'm actually going to the store right now you could say hey stop over at my house real quick too this just means you weren't planning on it but you should come over and see me for just a brief moment of time turnover when you turn over an object you turn it to the opposite side as it was facing before you can also use turnover to describe change of power so if there is a business or a workplace and people quit and leave and then they hire new people very frequently we often say there is a lot of turnover in that restaurant or there is a lot of turnover in that business or when you buy a house or move into a new house and now is going to be your house the landlord or the previous owners will turn over the keys to you that means the keys to the house are now your responsibility because now it's your house sleepover when you sleep over it just means that you stay the night at someone's house and when we're kids here in the United States we say we're going to have a sleepover with our friends when we're staying at their house for one night if you want to tell someone that they can stay at your house you can say that they can sleep over for a night or they can sleep over for a week this just means that you have room to have them sleeping in your house and staying at your house take over when you take over something it means you're taking or gaining control or responsibility of something from someone else so for instance when there's a new president they take over the White House in the United States this is the place where the president lives and they take over all of the Power too now in the United States we vote for a president but if someone were to just come into the government and take the power without being elected or voted for it would be a takeover of the government makeover makeover is used to say that you are going to make someone or something look much better than they did before so there used to be a show on television called Extreme Home Makeover where they would basically knock down all the walls in the house repaint everything put new floors in they would try to make the house look really nice compared to what it looked like before it was a makeover and it was an Extreme Makeover if you give a person a makeover typically you just give them new clothes maybe a nice hair cut you change some things about their appearance to give them a makeover make them look better go over when you go over something you're reviewing a process or you're examining something or checking something so for instance usually when people have weddings here in the United States they're the plan for the whole whole day and the bride and groom go over it together that means they look at it together and they make sure that they have all the people and all the things necessary for their wedding or their big party or if you want to ask your teacher to review some sort of concept with you that they taught you could raise your hand say hey could you go over what you just taught us the next set of phrasal verbs all deal with the word under the first two I want to talk about are come under and fall under both of the these phrasal verbs are used to say that something can be categorized in a certain category or in a type of list and there are some really common phrases that use these two phrasal verbs you can come under scrutiny this means that something that you're doing is going to be categorized as controversial or kind of questionable so it's going to be scrutinized or looked at very closely to see if it's wrong whenever the president of the United States passes a new law or approves a new law they come under scrutiny because some people don't like what they do you can also say that something will fall under scrutiny you can also use fall under to mean that it's going to be categorized a certain way let me give you another example some people think that cucumbers are a vegetable but they actually fall under fruits because they have seeds in them so that means that the food cucumber falls under under the category fruit or it's in that category and not vegetables put under if someone or something is put under it means it's placed in a certain state or it's influenced by either a drug or a substance 2 years ago I broke my arm and I had to be put under general anesthesia so this would be medications that make you sleep for surgery sometimes in the United States we just say that we have to be put on for surgery this means put under for general anesthesia but we just cut that second half of the sentence off we just say we have to be put under go under when you go under we typically talk about going underwater so a person or a thing will go under the surface of the water now go under can also mean to fail if a business goes under it means they have no more money left to operate or be open anymore in 2008 in the United States many of the banks went under that means they failed as Banks and they ran out of money now let's move on to some really important phrasal verbs that include the word through pass through when you pass through something you briefly see it or you briefly stop in this place when you travel in the United States by car on a long road trip you'll pass through many many small towns that have small restaurants and shops but often times you'll just pass through you won't stop for a long time breakthrough the most common way that breakthrough is used as a phrasal verb is to mean you pass through an obstacle or a barrier you're finally able to go to something after breaking through it in the winter time we say we break through the ice if we walk on ice and our feet go through it to the water if you are in a crowd of people you might say I had to break through the crowd in order to get inside here now breakthrough is commonly used as a noun to mean something that was a huge accomplishment that helped Advance a field especially the scientific field for instance penicillin was a huge breakthrough in medicine it helped cure a lot of different diseases and ailments when you use breakthrough as a phrasal verb it can that your hard work has helped you achieve something so we finally broke through the top 100 of the rankings that means we work so hard in something maybe it's chess a different sport or in your business that you are ranked now in the top 100 you're breaking through and you're making progress fall through when something falls through it fails to happen even though you had an arrangement or an agreement already in place it just doesn't happen for some reason often times I will call a friend and say hey what are you doing and they'll say maybe Oh I thought you were busy today or I thought you had plans with so and so your friend and I'll say oh our plans actually fell through they were busy or something came up fell through what do you want to do today so that means I had plans but they fell through meaning they did not happen for some reason and now I'm available or often times in business if there is an agreement between two people that you're going to get a deal done but then something happens and it can't happen anymore because one person you know went back on their agreement you can say our deal fell through it means it did not happen get through when you get through something you successfully achieve a goal or you achieve progress through something with some hard work and some challenges for many people in the United States they have to get through college by working very hard because it's financially very hard to go to college if your family doesn't have a lot of money or if you don't have a lot of money so some people will get through college by working multiple jobs at one time and that's just so they can pay for their living they can pay for the tuition at the school and the books that they'll need to go through it when you go through with something it means you carry out a plan or some action even though there might be some doubt or some insecurities of actually doing the thing for instance maybe you have a bad day at work and you say I'm going to quit tomorrow this job is terrible it is ruining my life and the next day you actually quit your friend says did you really quit your job today and you said yes they'll say I did not think that you would go through with it this means I didn't believe you would actually do it because quitting a job is so risky especially if you don't already have another job pull through if you pull through something it means you survived or you recovered from a serious health effect like an illness a heart attack or an accident for instance my friend's dog was hit by a car and they thought it was going to die but then it pulled through it actually lived and survived the accident you can also use this phrasal verb if someone does something that you did not think they would be able to do successfully and it's really helpful that they did it so you could say hey I didn't think that my friend would bring food to the dinner tonight but they really pulled through and they brought a ton of food for us so this means that you were surprised at how helpful they were or they were able to do something that was kind of difficult bring all the food to the party let's move on to some phrasal verbs that use the word on now there's a pretty good list for this one as well tack on when you tack on something you add either a charge or an item two common examples of this phrasal verb are to tack on a charge so if you're at a restaurant and there's an extra charge on the bill you can say oh it looks like they tacked on an extra charge or if you're adding something to someone's to-do list for them to complete you can say hey I'm tacking on a few things to your to-do list similarly the next phrasal verb is pile on when you pile on things you add things very quickly so if you're going to carry a lot of kids on your back you could say everybody pile on that means jump on to my back now you can also say that my boss is piling on tons of work this week that means they're adding tons and tons of work very quickly you can also use pile on to mean that everyone is being critical of someone or something so if you do something something you could say why is everyone piling on their complaints to me that means why is everyone telling me all their complaints or their bad things all at one time try on if you try on something you put on an item of clothing to see how it looks you're not going to wear it for the day you're just trying to see how it looks so this is a very important phrasal verb for shopping if you go to a mall you are going to want to use a dressing room to try on clothes to see if you want to buy them decide on when you decide on something you carefully consider all of your possibilities or all of your choices and then you make a decision so some families will take a long time to decide on where they want to go for vacation especially if everyone has different ideas of the type of vacation they want to go on maybe they'll decide on things like the cost or they'll decide on if they want to go to the beach or go to the mountains and then they'll decide on the final vacation Choice cheat on if you cheat on someone it means that you were in a relationship with them very committed and you had an affair or you started seeing someone else so you're lying to them you can also cheat on a test that means somehow you had the answers on the test you were being dishonest so whenever you cheat on someone or something the test it means you're being dishonest and you're lying lie on when you lie on something it means you know you're reclined you're laying down you're relaxed typically we use lie on when someone is asleep or down on something that's not a bed so we can say they were so tired they were lying on the table or you could say I was so tired I decided to lie on the couch and take a na come on when you want to say that a person or a show or some sort of program is going to be on the television screen you can say it's going to come on the television screen a really common question you might ask if you're wondering when a show is going to be released or you're going to be able to watch it is you could say when is the show going to come on Netflix or when does this movie come on Netflix that means when will it be available for me to watch on the television count on if you can count on someone or count on something it means you can rely or depend on the thing or the person if you ever visit Florida in the United States you can count on the weather being sunny but rainy for at least part of the day even though it's generally very nice and hot in Florida there's usually a small rainstorm throughout the day it's important to have reli a people that you can count on in life go back on when you go back on an agreement or something that you said you would do it means you fail to do that promise or you fail to do that agreement even though you said you would so when you go back on something it's like telling a lie for instance it feels like politicians in the United States always go back on the promises that they make during elections so they promise all these good things they promise money to everyone but then once they get elected they go back on their promises meaning they don't fulfill their promises have on if you have on something we're usually talking about clothing or accessories or something on your body you could say to someone if you notice their jewelry oh you have on earrings today they look beautiful that means you're wearing them today or if you're talking to your friend on the phone and you want to know what they're wearing you could say what do you have on this means what are you wearing right now it's important to come up with a plan for studying English every day when you're learning a language you have to keep that language in your head every day did you hear that phrasal verb to come up with when you come up with something you think of a plan or you think of an idea sometimes when you're taking a test and it asks you to write an answer down it's really hard to come up with something quickly on the spot is an idiom as well that means to come up with immediately so when you come up with something you think of it another way we use this phrasal verb is to say that we're producing something that somebody wants so if somebody is asking you for money and you go in your house and you try to find all the money that you can get you can say I'm sorry I could only come up with a few dollars I only have a few dollars in my house coming up with the money is to gather the money and give it to someone sometimes if my family is hungry and I need to cook something for them I can say I have to come up with a good lunch idea or this is the best I could come up with for lunch today so it's the best I could think of but it's also the best I can make so to come up with either means that you are producing something and making it or you are thinking of it in your head another very Advanced use of this phrasal verb to come up with is to grow up with something so you can say I came up with SpongeBob SquarePants so if you're coming up with it it means that you either watched it a lot as a child you ate it a lot as a child or you used it a lot as a child I came up with Dr Seuss books that means I read Dr Seuss books a lot when I was a child the next phrasal verb in this lesson is extremely similar in sounding to come up with it's to come down with to come down with something means you are coming down with a specific illness so you are getting sick I hope you don't come down with a cold another very common phrase that this phrasal verb is used with is to say I hope I don't come down with something this means I hope I don't get sick with any sort of illness come out of this phrasal verb has three different uses so pay attention it's very useful a really common thing to say if you have a bad experience is to say nothing nothing good came out of this situation so maybe if your family goes to a restaurant and everybody gets sick from the food you guys had an argument at the restaurant the food was bad you could say h nothing good came out of that restaurant so when you come out of something you can use this in a way that's saying you come out of the experience of something so like I said this phrasal verb is used really commonly to say nothing good came of this or at least something good came of this so you're saying there was result of something if you are using this phrasal verb to say the experience of something you can say I'm glad I came out of this alive or if you study abroad you can say I came out of this experience a better English speaker or if you go to another country let's say you go to Italy you could say I came out of Italy a much better Italian speaker so you come out of an experience and you are different you may have heard the idiom to come out of the BL blue the blue is just a mysterious place that we use in this idiom it's not a real place but we say this when someone seems to have come out of nowhere or we haven't heard from them in a very long time so to come out of means to come from somewhere that we can't see or to come and visit after not visiting for a long time you can also just simply use this to say like someone's coming out of their house or coming out of your room you can say I'm so glad that you've come out of your room today I'm so glad that you came out of the house this means that you went into public and maybe you had a fun experience with someone let's get around to learning the next phrasal verb in today's English lesson the phrasal verb is to get around to if you get around to something you do something or you deal with something often if I have tasks on my to-do list that I don't finish for the day I will say I will get around to that tomorrow it sounds like you're going around something but you're really just doing something this phrasal verb doesn't have to do with movement or obstacles if you get around to something it means that you're putting it off for later and you've done it later so the most common way to use this phrasal verb is to say I'll get around to doing it tomorrow or I'll get around to doing it next week or even I'll get around to doing it next year you can also say I'll get around to studying I'll get around to cleaning whatever the verb is that you're using in this sentence if you want to avoid a responsibility or somehow not have to do something not have to get around to it you can get out of something if you get out of something you are released of a responsibility or an obligation that you've had for instance the other night I made dinner and there was some dishes sitting next to the sink and my husband said I'll do the and I was so happy to get out of doing the dishes this means I was very happy to not have to do the responsibility so if you get out of something it can mean you are avoiding the responsibility or the task a second way this phrasal verb is used to get out of is to get out of a habit so I've gotten out of the habit of exercising every day this is just an example I've been good at exercising every day currently but if you you get out of a habit it means you stop doing it and you've worked to stop doing it or it can be negative you can say I've got out of the habit of reading every day reading is a good habit so this would be a negative use of it or you could say I've gotten out of the habit of smoking I'm so excited if you've quit smoking it's a good thing so you've gotten out of the habit and a slightly different use of this phrasal verb rather than getting out of a habit is to get out of a club or get out of a school or get out of a job you could say something like I've gotten out of the business of cars or I've gotten out of the restaurant business this means that you have stopped being involved with that and maybe you are starting a new career if you say this when you were a kid did you ever do something that you thought you might get in trouble for but you were so sneaky or you were so good at keeping a secret that you got away with it this is the phrasal verb to get away with if you get away with something you are escaping punishment or you're escaping the blame and nobody is going to catch you doing whatever you have done so often children might eat a cookie or they might eat something like a dessert or a sweet and the mom says where's the cookies where's the desserts and if a child were to blame the family pet maybe a dog or cat for eating it they would get away with the crime they would not have a punishment because everyone would think the dog just ate the cookies or whatever it is so if you get away with something you can avoid the punishment or avoid the blame if you get away with something you avoid the punishment or you avoid the blame for it sometimes if you're doing something that you just don't enjoy you just have to get through with it get through with it means you have to just finish it so this phrasal verb again can just be used to say that you're finishing something oh I got through with my homework already or I have to just get through this test and then I'll be done with the class this means you have something to finish or you can say get through with it already this is a phrase that someone who is very impatient would use to say just finish it already to get through with something is to finish something for most people when someone goes back on their promise it's a huge pet peeve people dislike someone who does not keep a promise or goes back on a promise so to go back on something is to reverse what you have said or to fail to keep a promise a common phrase this phrasal verb is used with in English is to go back on your word your word is what you say you will do it's your promise if you go back on it it means you do not keep your promise or maybe you do something that voids the promise that you made so recently I told my son if he picked up his toys he could have a candy and he cleaned up his toys and I was thinking he might have forgotten about the candy but I could not go back on my word I promised he could have that candy so I gave it to him sometimes when you're learning English and you're in a conversation and you're confused about what the person is asking or what they're about to do you just go along with it to go along with something means to kind of consent to something or agree to it when you're confused in a situation but you just act like you know what you're doing you go along with the person you're just saying it's okay I'm just consenting to this because I don't know what I'm doing this phrasal verb can also just mean that you're agreeing to something and you do understand the situation so you could agree to go along with a plan as long as somebody does a favor for you so you could say I went along with my boss's orders and he was very happy or she was very happy this means that you agreed to do whatever they asked you to do speaking of bosses do you get along with your boss at your work if you get along with someone it means you are agreeable towards them you are friendly and you are compatible if you don't get along with someone it means that you are enemies or you dislike them I had a coworker that I did not get along with because I didn't like the way that she treated customers and I didn't think she was very kind to me as well and it's hard to work with people when you don't get along with them however if you do get along with the people you work with and they're your work friends it makes the time go very fast and it makes the job very fun and pleasant another way we can use get along with is to say that we are going to keep doing something or finish a task so maybe you are at work and you're taking forever and let's say you work in a place that sells food the person who has bought the food might say can you just get along with it already this means can you hurry up can you finish it already if you are a parent and you are watching this English lesson you may understand the struggle when kids grow quickly they get bigger they grow out of clothes so fast kids especially grow out of their shoes very quickly this phrasal verb to grow out of means to increase in size and not be able to fit in your clothing anymore so when you grow out of something you grow too big to wear it you can grow out of your shoes if your feet get bigger this phrasal verb is not just used for clothing you can grow out of a TV show you can grow out of books it means you're becoming too mature to enjoy them anymore sometimes children have habits like sucking their thumbs and they just grow out of it they become so mature that they don't do it anymore and sometimes they don't grow out of it as quickly as we would like them to have you ever planted a seed and had a flower grow out of it this is probably the more scientific use of this phrasal verb that I also want you to know if something grows out of another thing it is developing from it so a flower grows out of a seed or M Mone can grow out of an investment if you invest in a company and you make more money your money has grown out of that investment I just wanted to point out this use of the phrasal verb as well because it's very Advanced but it is important to know the opposite of growing out of a shirt or growing out of shoes is to grow into something if you have clothing or shoes that are too big then you need to grow into them you need to get bigger I often do Buy clothing like shirts and pants for my children that are just a little bit too big so that they can grow into them and wear them longer cuz otherwise they grow out of their clothing so quickly just like the phrasal verb to grow out of can be used to talk about becoming too mature for things to grow into something you can be becoming more mature and becoming smarter if you're growing up as a child and you grow into liking something a flower grows out of a seed and a seed grows into a flower these two sentences mean the exact same thing but these phrasal verbs grow out of and grow into are a little bit tricky in this way I swear kids these days are getting healthier they're eating healthier food than what we grew up on if you grow up on something it means that you ate it a lot as a child or you watched it a lot as a child maybe if you like the show Blues Clues you grew up on it it means that you consumed it a lot as a child and that it influenced your personality or it influenced your development so you can say I grew up on mac and cheese this means that you ate a ton of mac and cheese as a child and through your adolescence you kept eating it and it's what you ate to take out on this phrasal verb has two very different meanings in my opinion the first use is to say that you are taking someone out on a date you are taking them to a nice place you are taking them on a fancy date if you take a child out on a field trip it means you're taking them out of the school building to experience something educational a very different use of this phrasal verb is to say you're taking your anger out on someone this means that you are acting very unpleasant and very rude to them because you feel so angry and upset and even though it's it's not your fault you are just angry and you're being rude to them when I'm in a bad mood I try not to take it out on anyone especially if it's not their fault I try not to take out my frustrations on people that work at stores or restaurants because again it's not their fault and you should not be rude to people and take out your negative emotions on them many people are very prideful and they don't like to take offers for help but sometimes especially if you are injured or sick and somebody offers to help or somebody offers to bring you a meal you should take them up on it so to take somebody up is to accept an offer and it's usually an offer out of kindness if someone says I would love to drive you to work tomorrow and you say no that's okay I can I can take the bus and then later you say I'm going to take you up on that offer actually it means you're going to accept the off offer another way to say that you are going to end something is to say you are going to do away with it this is actually a pretty dramatic way to say that you're going to end something or get rid of something so keep that in mind if you use this phrasal verb maybe if a business has closed you can say oh they did away with that business it means they closed it maybe there was a free coffee day at a restaurant and they no longer have that you could say they did away with it last year it means they got rid of it if something is going to do someone good it means it is going to benefit them you can say something like a haircut would do you good this means it would benefit you it would make you look better or you could say a nice home-cooked meal would do me good right now this means that it would benefit you it would make you feel really nice really happy really good to have that a phrase that's really similar to this one is to do well for someone or to do well by someone to do well for yourself means that you make a lot of money this is the phrase to do well for myself he's done really well for hisself this means that he's made a lot of money in his life to do well by someone means that someone has been fairly compensated so maybe a company did good by you if you had a job for a large company and they paid you really well and provided you with great benefits you could say they did really well by me have you ever known someone that seems to never be able to hold down a job this means to keep a job if you hold something down it can mean to keep stability or especially Financial stability by keeping a job the phrase hold down a job means to keep a job for an extended amount of time a very literal way of holding something down is to just hold it down and restrain it or say it's so windy so I'm going to hold this down so it doesn't blow away have you ever had a guest over to your home and they're hungry and you ask can I get you some food right now or do you want to wait for dinner they might say I can hold out for dinner if you hold out for something it means you are waiting for something holding on is used in a similar way I'm going to hold on for dinner but the phrase hold out sounds a bit more natural in my opinion so if you hold out for something it means you're waiting for it to either happen or you're waiting to get something sometimes if a new iPhone is going to come out and your phone is kind of broken but you can still use it you can say I'm just holding out for the new iPhone and then I'm going to get a new iPhone this means you're waiting on the new iPhone to come out to hold back from let's say there was two people that were really angry at each other and you didn't want them to get into a physical fight you could say we had to hold the man back from the other person or whatever it is so to hold back from means to restrain sometimes you have to hold back from sharing your true emotions or from saying something that could get you into trouble often times if people are trying to appear strong they will hold back from crying or they will hold back from expressing sad emotions drop out another way we say this is to flunk out if you drop out or flunk out of a class or school it means you have failed it means you are no longer enrolled in the class and that you have basically quit or gotten such bad grades that you are no longer in the class Tim dropped out of school after the 11th grade her grades were so bad that she flunked out before the end of the semester fall behind if you fall behind in a course it means that you are not on track you do not have upto-date assignments and maybe you haven't learned as quickly as the other members of your class or your course sometimes in the United States children will fall behind so badly in school that they will need to repeat a grade or repeat a year of school Donald fell behind in his math class because he was sick for two whole weeks call on call on if you are sitting in a classroom often times the teacher will have you raise your hands if you know the answer and he or she will call on a person in the class to speak and say their answer when you call on someone it means you ask them to speak the teacher called on Mark but he was not paying attention and he did not know the answer turn in turn in if you take a class online or in person you can use the phrasal verb turn in to mean that you have given your assignment to the teacher to be graded if you turn in an assignment online often times you will attach a PDF if you turn in an assignment in person it means you will give the teacher your paper that you have written on Cynthia turned in her assignment early it was not due until Friday but she brought her paper to the teacher on Thursday we use two different words to say that a teacher is giving you a piece of paper or giving you the assignment that you need to take we either say hand out or pass out now these phrasal verbs can be used in different ways but in this context if a teacher hands out an assignment it means he or she gives the papers to the class that have the assignment on it we also sometimes call that piece of paper that has been given to the entire class a handout I had to print handouts for my entire English class another way that we say this is the teacher passed out all of the papers now don't confuse this with passing out and falling on the ground if you are ill or if you suddenly become sick the teacher handed out safety goggles for every member of the class to use during the science experiment after the teacher passed out the papers the students began the test this phrasal verb skim through is useful in many different contexts if you are reading something quickly but not entirely you are just skimming through it if you want to say that you looked at a few pages or just a few different sentences of something you were supposed to read you can say I just skimmed through it really quick but I'll read it entirely later Jonathan did not do well on the test because he had just skimmed through his notes without actually studying them sometimes we will not say this full phrasal verb sometimes we'll just say I skimmed the reading last night that means you read it quickly but again not entirely or thoroughly as a language learner you will often times have to look up a word if you look up something you go research it so if you're unsure of a word you will often find a dictionary and look it up if you need somebody's phone number you might go to your address book or go to your cell phone and look up their phone number so anytime you are trying to find information you are looking it up I have had to look up the capital of Germany because I was unsure I had to look up the capital of Spain because I didn't know if it was mrid or Valencia go over to go over something means to review it often times teachers will go over Concepts that students have already learned it's a good idea to go over your notes before you have to take a test so to go over something means to read it again learn it again or do it again students will go over the safety procedure in case there is a fire if you need to learn something you need to study up on it you can also say read up on it if you have a conversation with someone and they say have you heard of the Hubble telescope and you don't know much about it you can say no I need to study up on it or you can say no I would like to read up on it our teacher made us study up on all of the planets in the solar system to wise up to become wise means to become smart oftentimes we'll use the phrasal verb wise up to mean that someone has gotten smarter or they've learned more about things in life so now they make better decisions in college there were people that would take the tests from the years prior and give them to other students students so that they would have the answers often times the professors wise up and they change the tests so this means that they learn from students that were cheating and they did something better they wised up go over go over means the exact same thing as to review something I will often go over common grammar mistakes with my students because even though they've already learned them it's important to go over them this means it's important to review them a common way to ask a teacher to review something for you or to explain it again is can you go over that that means can you review that concept if you want to say that you have just explained something very briefly or you've just given a short explanation even though there's a lot of information about something you can say that you touched on something we only touch on world history when we're in school because there are so many different countries in the world that it would be impossible to go indepth about every single subject so we only touch on Russian history we only touch on the French Revolution topics like this have so much information that we can only touch on them slack off if you have slacked off it means that you are too relaxed and you are being lazy I was supposed to study for a test yesterday but I was just slacking off and watching Netflix this means that I was being lazy and not doing what I was supposed to be doing teachers will often get irritated with the students that slack off and do not study hard put off if you are slacking off you are often putting off what you are supposed to be doing procrastinating and putting off something mean the exact same thing if you don't want to do something so you keep saying you're going to do it later you are putting it off it's never a good idea to put off your homework until the last minute this means that you should do your homework early rather than the day before it is due if you are sick and you miss a day of school or you miss a day of class you will often have to make up the work that you missed if you make up something it means you do it at a later date often times if you have missed a day of school or a day of class they will have something called a makeup exam this means it's a test that you can take that replicates the test that was in class but it's at a later date because you missed it for an important reason I forgot to do my homework so my teacher made me make it up during recess if you fall behind in a class you will often have to catch up on the work so it's kind of like making up the work but instead of doing it at a later time you're just trying to work faster so you can be at the same point that the whole class is at oftentimes if you need to learn something very quickly you could say I fell behind on my reading but tonight I am going to spend extra time and catch up with the book this means you are going to catch up on the pages that you are behind on if you are in a class and a teacher wants you to start writing something the teacher will say take down notes or take down this sentence into your notebook to take down something means to write it on paper if there is a topic in school that the teacher is going to skip and they're not going to teach you about they can use the phrasal verb skip over we are going to skip over this chapter in the history book because you will not need to know it for the test so to skip over something means to take it out completely and not do it if you've ever read a good book and you want to know what happens at the end of the book you might jump ahead to the last page or if you are waiting in a line you might jump ahead to the front this means you you know walk to the front of the line and Skip everybody who was waiting in the line so oftentimes when we're reading and learning we'll jump ahead meaning we'll start learning more advanced topics or you can physically jump ahead by moving forward it's important if you go to a class or a school to sign up for extra things if you sign up for something it means that you register for the event or the club and you give them your information so that you can be a part of it when I was in school I signed up for many different sports within the school instead of getting bad grades or choosing to leave school you might get kicked out if you have bad behavior so children with very poor Behavior or children who do something bad in school will get kicked out if you are at a restaurant or a bar or a club and you have bad behavior you might get kicked out of that club or that restaurant finally often times in school when we think of things in our head and we mistake two things we mix two things up so you could say I always mix up the two words dessert and desert when I'm spelling them this means that you mistakenly use the wrong word when you're spelling blend versus blend in blend in when we talk about the simple verb to blend we're typically mixing two or more things or elements together this is of course a very popular verb to use in a recipe in the kitchen when you're blending ingredients together to make a cake now when you blend in it means that you're trying to not be noticed often times celebrities will go into public places and they'll wear ordinary clothes and sunglasses and a baseball hat so that they blend in and people don't notice that they are a celebrity rather than just an average person so when you use this phrasal verb it changes the meaning of blend entirely fake versus fake out oh fake to fake something means to make an imitation or counterfeit of the real thing now you can fake a smile even though you feel sad so it's a fake smile because typically a smile is used when we're happy the way that the word fake changes when we add out to it is when you're faking out someone you're trying to make them think one thing even though you're going to do another so for instance in a lot of sports the team will try to fake like they're going one way and then they'll go the other way in order to score or think of a magician a person who does magic tricks they're not real magic tricks so they're faking out the audience they're faking out the Audience by making it look like it's m magic even though it's not so fake and fake out can be pretty similar but it is very useful to know the phrasal verb fake out especially in sports or if you're doing something to trick someone into thinking you're doing another thing Point versus point out when you point to something it means you're indicating which direction it is or if you have a list of things or a group of things you're pointing to which one in particular now when you point out something you're drawing a lot of attention to something so for instance it's important to point out errors when you are proofreading someone's writing so typically when we use the verb to point we're indicating just a direction or a way but when we say point out we're usually drawing attention to an error or you could point out something positive too like you could say even though our soccer team lost the game I want to point out that every everyone on the team had a positive attitude and had fun so you're pointing out something positive rather than negative take versus take out so when we're speaking of the verb to take something it usually means you're grabbing something or taking something from another person when we take out it's not from another person when we take out something so let's say we're going to take out the milk from the refrigerator we're removing the milk from the refrigerator now you could say I'm going to take the milk from the refrigerator but more commonly as a native English speaker I would say I'm going to take it out if you're removing it from another place now if you are at the grocery store and someone hands you a bag with some milk in it you can say oh I'll take that bag you're taking it from another person but when you remove the milk from the bag you're going to say I'm going to take out the milk since you're removing it from a different place and bonus when we say take out it means takeway food they say takeaway in the UK and in the United States we say take out food that's a noun it's not a verb so this is just a bonus part of this lesson speaking of soccer do you know the difference between to kick and to kick out kick out of course when we kick a ball or when we kick any object really we are using our foot now when we add the word out to kick and we use it as a phrasal verb it means we are telling someone that they have to leave a place it's very common in the United States if people have bad behavior in a restaurant or in a club or in a bar they will get kicked out by the security there or if you're in a school and you have bad behavior in a classroom your teacher will take you out of claps this means I'll tell you that you have to get out of the classroom and go to the principal's office so this is one of those cases where the simple verb and the phrasal verb have totally different meanings eat versus eat up now of course you know the simple verb to eat which means to consume food but what happens to this verb when we add up to it we're not talking about food typically when we use this phrasal verb although you can say I want to eat up my dinner it just means you're going to consume it entirely or you could say hey everyone eat it up that means eat all of your food have as much as you want you can use this phrasal verb when you're not speaking about food as well for instance if you are talking with someone and you're having a very long or lengthy conversation you might want to say them I'm sorry I didn't mean to eat up all of your time this means I didn't want to take all of your time or lose all of your time when you say eat up you mean consume entirely if something at work is taking your whole day you could say this is eating up all of my time so we use this phrasal verb a lot when we talk about using time or sometimes if I'm driving in my car and I'm driving all over town it's eating up all my gas this means I'm driving so much that it's using all of the gasoline in my gas tank to show versus to show off if you want to show something to someone of course you say look at this I want to show you this now typically if we are really proud of what we are showing the person we are going to show off something so I have a collection of seashells it's not terribly impressive so I typically would show this off to someone now my husband has a collection of baseball cards and he is very proud of these baseball cards so he would want to show off the baseball cards to you when you show something to someone you just have them see when you show off something to someone you are very proud and you want to show them the thing so that they are impressed by it a lot of people who have nice houses want to show off their houses so maybe they have a pool in their backyard or they have a really large house they'll say Let me show off my house to you now sometimes we use this phrasal verb in a negative way like they're just showing off that means they're doing something just to try to impress you they're not doing it you know just to be nice or to be good they're trying to just impress everyone with what they have or the skills that they have like a gymnast someone who does gymnastics might show off by doing flips and cartwheels because it's so impressive so of course make sure that you know the difference between show and show off because they are very different especially when you're speaking with a native English speaker play play versus play up when you add up in this phrasal verb it changes the meaning of play entirely to play means to engage in a fun activity of course children are always playing now when you play up something it means you're being dramatic when you play up something you're often exaggerating an emotion or a feeling that you have so if you have a sibling a brother or a sister growing up when you were children and if one of your brothers or sisters hit you and you wanted them to get in trouble you might say a that hurts so bad my brother hit me or my sister hit me this is playing up your reaction so that your parents will think you're really hurt even though typically kids just fight and it doesn't typically hurt that bad a lot of times if people are a little bit sick but they want to get out of school or work they will play up their sickness this means they will exaggerate how sick they are so they might tell their teacher or their boss oh I couldn't get out of bed I couldn't even move I had a really bad fever when they might have just had a cold but they're laying up their illness sit versus sit out I'm going sit it out sit it out this is really important to know of course you know that when someone sits it means they're physically going down onto a chair so they sit on a chair now of course sit down is the act of sitting and when we say sit out it has an entire different meaning so if somebody sits out of an activity it means they do not participate or they do not join in maybe all of your co-workers are going out to lunch and they're going to a restaurant but you are too busy and you have too much work in English we would say hey I'm going to sit this one out today this is a really common phrase that means you are not going to join them you're going to skip this time in soccer if a player gets a red card they have to sit out of the game this means they cannot participate in the game so when you tell someone to sit out it means they need to go away and they can't participate in the activity anymore rip verse rip up right rip it up legs when you rip something you have a small tear in it so lots of times if you have an old piece of clothing you might accidentally rip your clothing and it's damaged a little bit now when we add up to rip it means that we are shredding something we're destroying it the most common way we use this phrasal verb is to rip up a piece of paper in movies when you know somebody does not agree to a contract they they might dramatically rip up the paper this means they make the paper into small shreds or small pieces so make sure if you are talking about just having a small piece of damage in your clothing you can see I ripped my clothing but if something is completely destroyed Often by dogs or other animals you could say it's ripped up set versus to set out when you set an item on a table or any other surface it just means you're put put it there or you're placing it there when you add out to set and you set out it means you begin something often times in movies and in television the main character will set out on a journey or they will set out on an adventure this means they start the adventure with the intention of you know doing a big task or having a big Journey we can also use this phrasal verb set out when we are trying to accomplish a goal so for me my goal goal on my English Channel English with Kayla is to set out to have a million subscribers so make sure you're subscribed if you haven't already and that's just meaning that like I have this goal and I have this intention of doing something so you can set out on a journey or you can set out on a goal let versus let down when you let someone do something it means you're allowing them to do something so many people in the United States they love their pets so much they love their dogs especially they will let their dogs sleep in the bed with them it's crazy I know it's not like that in other places of the world maybe it is where you live but when you let down someone it means you disappoint them so if you have bad news to tell someone let's say you have a big event that day and it's raining you might say I'm sorry to let you down but it's raining outside this means I'm sorry to disappoint you now if someone does something to disappoint point you you can say you really let me down so I thought you were going to show up to my party yesterday but I was really let down that you didn't arrive this means that I was really sad and disappointed in you you disappointed me by not doing something so let and let down have really different meanings as well Turn versus turn over now of course I can turn in my chair which just means to change direction and you turn in your car you can turn left or you can turn right or you can turn around which means you go backwards now when we say turn over we could have something and we are putting it on the opposite side or we can say we are turning over responsibility if you are speaking and you want to have someone else come and speak after you you can say I'm going to turn it over to Debbie or I'm going to turn over the talk to John on this means it's not my turn anymore I'm going to let them control the meaning or I'm going to have them speak now as a noun in a job if we have a lot of turnover it means a lot of people quit their job and a lot of people get hired it's changing a lot follow versus follow through follow through when you follow someone or something you go in the same exact direction for instance if someone is going to the same place that you are you might say I'm going to follow you in my car because I don't know how to get there that means I'm going to go the same way that you do when you follow through with something it means you complete something that you said you would do it's really important to follow through on your promises this means if you promise something you actually do it if you're unsure if you can complete a promise or something you said you would do you can say I'm not sure I'm going to be able to follow through this means I'm not sure I'm going to be able to complete what I said I would do in today's English lesson you'll see a sentence on screen with a blank space I'm going to give you two phrasal verbs to choose from and you choose the correct phrasal verb let's get started after a long day at work I can't wait to my shoes and relax on the couch take off or put off the correct answer in this sentence is take off when you remove something from your body like shoes or a shirt or pants we say take off Sarah had to her meeting due to a sudden emergency did Sarah have to call off or send off the correct answer is call off when you call off something it means you cancel it we use the phrasal verb send off when we were saying goodbye to someone so in this sentence it does not make sense the correct answer is call off or to cancel I was cleaning the attic when I an old photo album when I came across an old photo album or what I put across an old photo album the correct answer is came across the phrasal verb to come across something means to find it unexpectantly so if you're cleaning your attic or any other storage area in your house you might come across some interesting things that means you you might find some things that you didn't know were there the phrasal verb put across does not exist I can't think of any case in the English language where I would say put across don't when you're in the middle of an important conversation don't wander off or don't wander to the correct answer is wander off don't wander off when you're in the middle of an important conversation so if you're speaking to someone about something really important and also you start to walk away we call that wandering off in the English language the verb to wander it just means to walk aimlessly with no Mission or no objective you're just exploring or you're just getting lost when we say we're wandering off from a conversation or a place it means we're straying from the place where where we're supposed to be so this is a really useful phrasal verb in the English language and you'll definitely hear native English speakers say they just wandered off maybe they wandered off in the middle of an important conversation and the phrasal verb wander to does not exist in the English language so don't use that one you need to your car from the mechanic shop today you need to pick up or you need to pick apart the correct answer is you need to pick up when we talk about getting something from a store and bringing it home we say we're picking it up to pick aart means to literally take pieces from something and take them apart or remove them from something so the correct phrasal verb here is to pick up if we are going to get the car that we own from the mechan mechanic shop so the person that fixes our car and bring it back with us we are picking it up sometimes we say I can pick you up from work that means I can drive there and get you in my car and bring you home from work the old house started to because of its age and neglect the old house started to fall off or the old house started to fall apart the correct phrasal verb for this sentence is to fall apart when we say that something is falling apart we use this phrasal verb very commonly it means that something is starting to slowly break pieces are coming off maybe you have a really old pair of shoes you've been wearing them forever they're super dirty little pieces are coming apart from them we can say they are falling apart you need need new shoes that means your shoes are starting to look broken and soon you will not even be able to wear them because they will just be completely broken and completely old can you my dog while I'm on vacation can you look on my dog while I'm on vacation or can you look after my dog while I'm on vacation the correct answer is look after when we say that someone should look after somebody or something like an animal it means they are taking care of them they are making sure that they don't get in trouble or damaged or lost or broken you are just taking care of the thing or the person if you need to go somewhere maybe you need to grun to the store you might ask someone to look after your kids this means like babysitting and look look on is not a phrasal verb in the English language so do not use this phrasal verb either we should the details of the project before the presentation we should go over the details or we should go forward the details the correct answer to this question is we should go over the details when you say you are going over something it means you are reviewing a document or you are reviewing a book or rules or whatever it might be a common phrase in English is we need to go over the plan this means let's review it and make sure we both know what the plan is to go forward means to go ahead or to start something so you might ask someone do you want to go forward with this this means do you want to do it so in this sentence go forward doesn't make sense the correct answer is go over when you're on the phone please ask the caller to for a moment are you going to ask the caller to hold on or to hold off for a moment the correct answer is to hold on for a moment so in English sometimes when it comes to the telephone we'll just say could you hold for a moment and this means we are going to put them on hold on our telephone so maybe there'll be some music that plays while they wait on the phone we need to leave or we need to take a different call now if you're helping someone on the phone and you're going to stay on the phone the whole time you're not going to put hold music on you can say just hold on while I find this for you or hold on while my computer loads whatever it may be it just means you need them to wait for a moment now the phrasal verb to hold off it's very very common as well in this sentence it doesn't make sense because when you ask someone to hold off it means you're telling them to wait to do something so in this sentence I'm saying hold on that means I'm going to do something and I want you to wait and to hold off means I want you to wait to do something so I can see how these two phrasal verbs can be super confusing hopefully this example really clarifies the difference between holding on and holding off please your trash in the bin don't Litter please clean up your trash in the bin or please clean to your trash in the bin the correct answer in this question is please clean up your trash clean to is not a phrasal verb in English we always say clean up when it comes to trash or cleaning in general a really common phrase in English with this phrasal verb is I'm going to clean up my house today this means I'm just going to clean the house totally for the day I'm going to vacuum I'm going to scrub I'm going to dust whatever needs cleaning in my house I'm going to clean up I have to go to class today because my teacher won't let me the test if I miss it will my teacher not let me mix up the test or make up the test the correct answer is my teacher will not let me make up the test when someone lets you make up something they let you redo it or reconcile it so typically when we miss something we we might say can I make this up this means can I have another opportunity to do the same thing or if you make a mistake and you make someone angry you might ask them how can I make this up to you this means how can I replace this incident with something better make up in the English language has a lot of different uses but when we talk about redoing a test or a quiz or some sort of assignment in school we call that making it up that means redoing it and to mix up something means to confuse it with another thing if we have something that's really confusing and we do the wrong thing we might say I'm sorry I got mixed up I have to some groceries on my way home from work I have to pick up some groceries or I have to pick out some groceries the correct answer to this question is I have to pick up some groceries now that's the one that I think makes more sense in this sentence but you could say I need to pick out some groceries so to pick up means to go get to pick out means to choose so maybe you have to stop on your way home and choose some groceries but more commonly we will just say I need to pick up some groceries that means you have an idea of what you need to get from the grocery store for food maybe you're making pasta that night and you need to pick up some spaghetti and some spaghetti sauce but if you're not sure exactly what you're going to get maybe you don't know what you want for dinner you might say I have to go pick out some groceries for dinner so both phasal verbs could kind of make sense in this sentence to pick up means to get and to pick out Out means to choose these phrasal verbs sound very similar but they have pretty different meanings the rain forced us to our picnic the rain forced us to put off our picnic or the rain forced us to put on our picnic the correct answer is the rain forced us to put off our picnic to put off something means to delay it or decide to do it later so if it is raining you would not want to have a picnic or a meal outside now to put on means to have to do something an event of some sort if you are putting on a show that means you're going to make a show you're having a show with an audience that people can come to sometimes we say I'm going to put on a party for Saturday night this means I'm having a party for Saturday night it's a less common way to say this but we do use put on in this way sometimes but the correct answer in this sentence is we're going to put off the picnic because we have to do it later we're going to cancel it but we're going to do it later I always when I have an important meaning for work I always dress up for the important meaning or I always dress down for the important meeting the correct answer for this question is I always dress up for an important meeting at work to dress up means to dress better than normal to try to look nice or as I like to say fancy to dress down actually means to dress more casually in the United States casual Fridays are pretty common in the workplace that means on Fridays everyone who works in a certain office doesn't dress up like they normally do they can dress down and wear jeans and sweatshirts and t-shirts and casual clothes like that so to dress up means to dress better and to dress down means to dress more casually we need to a plan to solve this problem we need to make for a plan or we need to make up a plan the correct answer in this question is we need to make up a plan when we use the phrasal verb make up as I mentioned before it has so many different uses in the English language when you make up something it means you invent it or create it so you can make up a lie which is a common phrase to use in English which means you lie about something that didn't happen but when we say we're making up a plan it means we're thinking of a new plan to solve a problem and to make four is not a phrasal verb in English so don't use that one the airplane is about to please fasten your seat bels the airplane is about to take off or the airplane is about to take on the correct answer for this sentence is the airplane is about to take off we use this phrasal verb take off when it comes to airplanes to mean it's going to start to fly when we also want to say that something is going to start doing well or become popular we say it's going to take off right now I really noticed that Reebok shoes are starting to take off that means a lot of people are wearing them and they're becoming really popular to take on has a completely different meaning than to take off in this sentence when we take on something it means we are willing to accept responsibility so you can take on a job or you can take on a task and this means you're going to start to do it you're willing to do the work the couple decided to after being together for 10 years the couple decided to break down or the couple decided to break wake up the correct answer for this sentence is the couple decided to break up when two people break up it means they end their relationship or if you break up a company it means you end the company to break down can have several different meanings it can mean to literally break or not work anymore if you're talking about a machine if if you're talking about a person breaking down it means they are very emotional they are just not happy anymore they're really really sad and it's like they've lost all hope if they're breaking down so in this sentence we say two people break up or end their relationship I at 6:30 a.m. every morning to go for a run I wake to at 6:30 a.m. or I wake up at 6:30 a.m. the correct answer for this sentence is I wake up at 6:30 a.m. to go for a run I do wake up quite early but right now I don't go for a run in the morning I wish I was that motivated when you want to say you get up out of bed you are awake for the day we say we wake up now sometimes we just say I was awake at 6:30 that might mean we're just in bed and we are awake but typically in English we use wake up to mean that we get out of bed and start our day we do not use the phrasal verb wake to in English it is incorrect we should these old toys they're no longer needed we should throw out these old toys or we should throw on these new toys the correct answer for this sentence is we should throw out these old toys if you don't need something you can throw it out that means you put it in the garbage now I would recommend donating old toys or finding someone else that can actually use them unless they're broken or damaged but in this sentence we say throw out the phrasal verb throw on can be used sometimes to mean to try on clothes very quickly or to put on clothes very quickly like I'm going to throw on a jacket before I go outside that means I'm just going to put it on quickly but in this sentence to throw on toys does not make sense at all I can't believe we of coffee we need to buy more I can't believe we ran over coffee or I can't believe we ran out of coffee the correct answer to this question is I can't believe we ran out of coffee to run out of something means that you do not have any more Supply left of it so when you run out of coffee you look in the coffee can and it's empty if you run out of gas in your car your car will no longer Drive anymore the fuel tank is empty now when we say run over it does not make sense in this sentence at all because when we say run over in English it means we go over something with either our car or we run over it with our feet so you do not want to run over a deer because it's so dangerous and obviously it's very sad to kill a deer too but it does happen quite frequently here in the United States because we have so many deer on the road