ON Flashcards
Get on my nerves
Annoy
Keep on
To continue doing something (it may annoy you)
To continue to employ someone
Put on
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
Come on
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
Go on
Continue
Happen
Electricity etc: work
To do something after doing something else
Used for encouraging someone to do something
Turn on
Make something start working
Use a quality you have
Attack someone
Call on
Officially ask someone to do something
Quick visit
Take on
Employ someone
Accept work/responsibility
To develop a particular character or appearance
Get on well
Be friends with someone
Bring on
Cause the onset of an illness
To make something bad happen to someone
Catch on
Become popular, fashionable
To understand
Count on
Rely on
Get on for
Approach a certain age/time/number
Get on
Make progress - especially in life
Continue doing something
Carry on
Continue
Pick on
Repeatedly criticise
Send on
Forward (a letter etc.)
Stay on
To remain at a job, school, or place for longer than you had intended to
Cheer on
Shout encouragement
Set on
Order to attack
Hold on
Wait
Switch on
Start electrical equipment - turn on
Try on
Put sg. on to see if it fits
Live on
Have (money or food) for survival
To eat a particular kind of food
Touch on
Mention briefly
Move on
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
Look on
Watch an activity
To think of someone or something in a particular way
Drag on
Continue unnecessarily for a long time
Work on
To spend time producing or improving sg
Used for saying that you are dealing with sg
To try to influence someone
Pass on
Give something
Give someone an illness
Make someone pay a cost
Ramble on
Keep talking for a long time in a very disorganized way
Let on
To talk about something that is intended to be a secret
Lay on
To provide sg such as food, entertainment, or a service, especially without charging for it
Run on
To continue for longer than expected or planned
Car: using petrol
Hit on
To suddenly have an idea
Leave on
Don’t switch off sg.
Wave on
To signal to a car not to stop
Tell on
Give away information about somebody
