1. Flashcards

(72 cards)

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To send a letter, document or parcel by post

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Send off sth/ send sth. off

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If someone or something arrives at the place

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Turn up

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To discover something by chance or to meet someone by chance

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Come across sth/ sb

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Write or type words or numbers, often so that you don’t forget them

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Note down sth/ note something down

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If a machine or part of machine doesn’t work as it should

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Play up

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If machine or vehicle stops working

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Break down

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Start talking about particular subject or open something on a screen

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Being up sth, bring sth up

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To make decision about something by discussing it with someone else or by considering it carefully

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Sort out sth, sport sth out

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Treat someone badly, especially by changing your mind a lot or not doing what you have promised

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Mess sb about/ around

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To tell someone that you cannot see them or do something for them until a later time, postpone

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Put off something/ put something off

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To decide that a planned event or activity will not happen, especially because or is not longer possible or useful

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Call off sth/ call sth off

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Look at a book or computer in order to find a piece of information

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Look up sth, look sth up

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To carefully read or discuss every part of something in order to make sure that it is correct or acceptable

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Go through sth

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To understand why someone behaves in the way that they do

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Make out sb/ make sb out

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Visit someone who you have not seen for a long time when you are visiting the place where they live

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Look up sb/ look sb up

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16
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Improve

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Look up

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17
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Eat meal in a restaurant, not at home

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Eat out

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To make someone remember or think about something from the past

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Bring back sth/ bring sth back

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To invite someone to come with you to a place such as cinema or restaurant, especially as a way of starting a romantic relationship

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Ask out sb/ ask sb out

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To take care of someone or something by doing what is needed to keep them well in a good condition

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Look after sb/ sth

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To call someone for second time, or to call someone who rang you earlier

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Ring (sb) back

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To take someone to a place that they want to go out to deliver something to a place, usually in a car, often when you are going somewhere else

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Drop off sb/ sth / drop sb/ sth off

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To feel pleased and excited about something that is going to happen

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Look forward to sth/ doing sth

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24
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To have a romantic relationship with someone

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Go out with sb

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To think that someone is less important than you, or to think that something is not good enough quality for to use
Look down on sb/ sth
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To get rid of something or to stop using something
Do away with sth
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To think of or to suggest a plan or idea, a solution to a problem or an answer to a question
Come up with something
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To succeed in not being criticised or punished for something wrong that you have done
Get away with sth/ doing sth
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To accept unpleasant behaviour or an unpleasant situation even though you do not like it
Put up with sb/sth
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To have to deal with a difficult situation or someone who disagrees with you or tries to stop you doing what you want
Come up against sth/ sb
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To think about or remember something that happened in the past
Look back
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To accept that you have been defeated and agree to stop competing or fighting
Giove in
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To finally agree to what someone wants after a period when you refuse to agree
Give in
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To go onto a bus, train, aircraft or boat
Get on sth
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If two or more people... they like each other and are friendly to each other
Get on
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To become conscious again/ to visit someone at their house
Come around/ round
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To remove something, especially something you are wearing
Take off
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To begin to feel better after an experience that has made you unhappy
Get over something
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To do and complete something difficult or unpleasant that must be done
Get something over with
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To continue to do something or to do something over and over again
Keep on doing something
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To prevent people from reaching a place or leaving a place
Cut off sb/sth/ cut sth/sb off
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To do the opposite of what someone has asked or advised you
Go against sth/sb
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Engine, machine or piece of equipment suddenly stops working
Cut out
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To put on formal or special clothes for a special occasion
Dress up (sb)/ dress (sb) up
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To experience an unpleasant or difficult situation or event
Go through something
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To refuse to listen to what someone says or to refuse to think about something seriously, ignore
Brush aside sb/sth or brush sth/sb aside
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To be tricked into believing something that is not true
Fall for something
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To be able to hear or see something or someone usually with difficulty
Make out sth/sb / make sb/sth out
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To try to get something that belongs to you or that you need Or try to discover more information about something
Chase up something or chase something up
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Pursue | To ask someone to do something that they said they would do but that they have not done yet
Chase up sb/ chase sb up
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Not to include someone or something | Omit
Leave out sb/ sth or leave sb/ sth out
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Issue | To produce information- statement/ warning/ press release and make it available for everyone to read or hear
Put out sth/ put sth out
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To become lover in level
Go down
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Escape
Get away
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Organise | To deal with something that needs doing or to help someone who needs your help
See to something/ someone
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To ask someone if they would like to come upstairs
Invite up sb or invite sb up
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To ask someone to come to your home
Invite over sb or invite sb over
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To ask someone to go with you to a place for example a restaurant or the cinema
Invite out sb/ invite sb out
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To ask someone if they would like to come into your house
Invite in sb or invite sb in
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To ask someone to come to your house after you have been out somewhere together
Invite back sb or invite sb back
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To ask someone to come to your house
Invite around/ round sb or invite sb around/ round
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To ask someone if they would like to go with you to an event or activity
Invite along sb/ invite sb along
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Fall to the ground
Fall over
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To change the place where you are sitting or standing so that there’s space for someone else
Move over
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Read something from the beginning to the end in order to find any mistake or to understand it better Read thoroughly
Read over/ through sth | Read sth over/ through
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To discuss a problem or situation especially before making a decision about it
Talk over something | Talk something over
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To have an arrangement to do something
Have something on
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Think carefully about an idea or a plan before making a decision
Think over something | Think something over
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To turn a page in a book so that side which was facing down is now facing up
Turn over something | Turn something over
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To drive a car to the side of the road in order to stop
Pull over
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To quickly examine something or someone
Look over something/ sb | Look sb/ sth over
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To persuade someone that something is true when it is not, usually as a joke
Have sb on