14 PHRASAL VERBS with meanings you can’t guess!

Question 1

size up

Answer 1

If you size up a person or situation, you carefully look at the person or think about the situation, so that you can decide how to act.

Some U.S. manufacturers have been sizing up the U.K. as a possible market for their clothes

Question 2

dish out

Answer 2

put food on to a plate or plates before a meal.
“he begins dishing out bowls of strawberry ice cream”

give aggressively

Question 3

rat out

Answer 3

inform on someone, expose

“he ratted out a pair of colleagues so he could stay out of jail”

Question 4

dig in

Answer 4

take, consume, investigate

Question 5

fill out

Answer 5

to gain weight

Question 6

water down

dumb down

Answer 6

to make simpler, weaker

Question 7

farm out

Answer 7

to outsource

Magazines often farm out articles to freelance journalists

Question 8

1) suck up to sb (a suckup)

2) suck it up

Answer 8

1) to try to make someone in authority approve of you by doing and saying things that will please them

“Why do you think he offered to take all that work home?” “Oh, he’s just sucking up to the boss.”

2) to tolerate

Question 9

man up

Answer 9

used to tell someone that they should deal with something more bravely, be strong

You need to man up and admit you were wrong

Question 10

weight in

Answer 10

1. make a forceful contribution to a competition or argument

“the dispute turned nastier when Steve weighed in”

2.(of a boxer or jockey) be officially weighed before or after a contest

“Mason weighed in at 17 stone 10 pounds”

Question 11

light up

Answer 11

to beat sb

Question 12

beat someone to something

Answer 12

to claim something before someone else does