ON Flashcards

1
Q

Get on my nerves

A

Annoy

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2
Q

Keep on

A

To continue doing something (it may annoy you)

To continue to employ someone

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3
Q

Put on

A
Start wearing something
Organize an event
Start to cook
Become fatter
To pretend to have a particular feeling or a particular way of speaking or behaving
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4
Q

Come on

A
Vamos! Used for telling someone to hurry
To develop or make progress
To start working by being switched on
To appear on a stage
If an illness comes on, it starts to affect you
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5
Q

Go on

A

Continue
Happen
Electricity etc: work
To do something after doing something else
Used for encouraging someone to do something

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6
Q

Turn on

A

Make something start working
Use a quality you have
Attack someone

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7
Q

Call on

A

Officially ask someone to do something

Quick visit

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8
Q

Take on

A

Employ someone
Accept work/responsibility
To develop a particular character or appearance

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9
Q

Get on well

A

Be friends with someone

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10
Q

Bring on

A

Cause the onset of an illness

To make something bad happen to someone

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11
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Catch on

A

Become popular, fashionable

To understand

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12
Q

Count on

A

Rely on

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13
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Get on for

A

Approach a certain age/time/number

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14
Q

Get on

A

Make progress - especially in life

Continue doing something

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15
Q

Carry on

A

Continue

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16
Q

Pick on

A

Repeatedly criticise

17
Q

Send on

A

Forward (a letter etc.)

18
Q

Stay on

A

To remain at a job, school, or place for longer than you had intended to

19
Q

Cheer on

A

Shout encouragement

20
Q

Set on

A

Order to attack

21
Q

Hold on

A

Wait

22
Q

Switch on

A

Start electrical equipment - turn on

23
Q

Try on

A

Put sg. on to see if it fits

24
Q

Live on

A

Have (money or food) for survival

To eat a particular kind of food

25
Q

Touch on

A

Mention briefly

26
Q

Move on

A

Start talking about a new subject
To tell someone to move away from a place
To start to continue with your life after you have dealt successfully with a bad experience

27
Q

Look on

A

Watch an activity

To think of someone or something in a particular way

28
Q

Drag on

A

Continue unnecessarily for a long time

29
Q

Work on

A

To spend time producing or improving sg
Used for saying that you are dealing with sg
To try to influence someone

30
Q

Pass on

A

Give something
Give someone an illness
Make someone pay a cost

31
Q

Ramble on

A

Keep talking for a long time in a very disorganized way

32
Q

Let on

A

To talk about something that is intended to be a secret

33
Q

Lay on

A

To provide sg such as food, entertainment, or a service, especially without charging for it

34
Q

Run on

A

To continue for longer than expected or planned

Car: using petrol

35
Q

Hit on

A

To suddenly have an idea

36
Q

Leave on

A

Don’t switch off sg.

37
Q

Wave on

A

To signal to a car not to stop

38
Q

Tell on

A

Give away information about somebody