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Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

1
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Fall out

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To have an argument with someone and stop being friends
—

Hanna and I fell out yesteday

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Look up to

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To admire to I’m, respect them and aspire to be like the one day
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I have always look up to Josh

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Have sb. over / ask sb. round

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To invite sb. to home
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I’am having some friends over later.
I am sorry the house is in a mess, we asked some friends round.

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To count on

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To rely on someone
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My mates can count on me.

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To Lean on

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To depend on sb. For support

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Put sth. down to

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To think sth. happened for some reason
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Rachel was pretty frosty with me yesterday but I put it down to tiredness

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Talk sb. out of

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To convince not to do something
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I tried to talk Sam out to telling his parents

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To stick up for

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To support or defend someone in situation
—
Thank you for sticking up for me

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To drop/pop in/by/round

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To make a short visit somewhere, often to go someone’a house unannounced
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I’m going to drop in to see Olivia later

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To run into

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To meet someone with out planned to
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I run into Jill in the supermarket
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You will never guess who I run into!

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To show up

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Arrive somewhere you are expected
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Sally never shows up on time

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To get along/on with

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To have a good relationship with sb.
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I get along well with my brother’s friend

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To come between

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To cause an argument between people
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My friend Amy got a new boyfriend who ended up coming between us.

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To grow apart

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To gradually stop having a close relationship with someone
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We were best friends at school but we grew apart when we left.

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To catch up

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To talk to sb. You haven’t seen for some time and tell them your news.
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It was lovely to catch up with you!

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To fix/set sb. Up

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To arrange for people to meet so they might start a romantic relationship
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I tried to fix Kara and Ben up but they didn’t like each other

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To bump into

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To meet unexpectedly

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Fed up with

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He was fed up with doing all the work

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I Have had enough

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I’ve had enough of these kids screaming for the day
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Or said something I can’t disagree with

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Have got me there

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You’ve asked sth. I don’t know the answer to

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Mess up
Now you’ve have done it.

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Make something untidy/dirty
Mishandle the situation
Done sth. Wrong

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To be used to

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Is normal for us now

Valerie is used to her husband’s snoring, so it doesn’t bother her.

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To get used to

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We are getting used to living in London
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You get used to living in London.

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Daunting [ˈdɔːntɪŋ]

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Feel nervous and less confident about doing something
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Starting a new job can be a daunting prospect

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To work out

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To develop in a successful way
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Things have worked out quite well for us

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To stay on

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To continue studying, working, etc somewhere for longer than expected to after other people have left
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She failed her exam, and had to stay on school for another year

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Apprenticeship [əˈprentɪsʃɪp]

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A period of time when a persons learns the skills necessary to do a particular work or trade
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A lot of my friends are now doing apprenticeships in local companies

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To Have/ get + object + past participle
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To get done

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To ask someone or pay some to do sth. (To talk about a professional service). Who did that is obviously or not particularly important.
—
Get — informal
Have — neutral
—
They were just a place for men to have their hair cut

The can’t get a hair treatment done
—

  1. To say that something bad happens to us
    —
    I had my laptop stolen.
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To get + person + to infinitive

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To persuade someone to do sth. For me
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I got my dad to drive me to school.

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To keep up with

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To learn about it be aware of the news, events, etc
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She likes to keep up with the latest fashions

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31
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Attention span

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The amount of time a person can spend concentrating on a task before becoming disrupted
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Children these days seem to have very short attention span

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To fancy sb.

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To be sexually attracted to somebody
—
I think she fences me.

33
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Arrogant

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[ˈærəgənt] — высокомерный

34
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There is no textbook when it comes to

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No standard way to do smth
—
I’d like to give you some advice, but there is really no textbook when it comes to fashion.

35
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To mess up

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To fail something or do it badly
—
I’ve really messed up this cake.

36
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Get on well

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Ладить с кем то
—
I get on well with your dad

37
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To put sb. out of their misery

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To end a situation which is causing someone to suffer (страдать), usually by telling. Them something they have been waiting anxiously [ˈæŋkʃəs] (озабоченный) to hear
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I suppose that I’d better put them out of their misery

38
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in the buildup

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A period of excitement and preparation before significant event
—
There is always a lot of excitement in the buildup to an important match like this.

39
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To go all in

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To put all your energy or enthusiasm into something
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When I was decorating my new house I went all in with it.

40
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To be done with sth.

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The feeling that you don’t want to continue doing something

41
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The under one’s breath

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In a quite manner, almost inaudible

She came out of freezing water, and muttering swear words under her breath

42
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To grow out of

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To grow and no longer fit into clothes or other items that are typically worn

Also in figurative meaning: no longer do certain things because you are older and wiser

My sister quickly grow out of collecting Pokemon cards.

43
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To grow into

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To grow large as to dit into clothing that was once too big

Their hometown eventually grew into a massive city they hardly recognised.

44
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To keep up with smb

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To Moving or maintaining the same page or level as someone else and not falling behind regarding ability or skill level

As a child, Benny tried to keep up with his older brother, but he was still wet behind the ears.

45
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To look back on/at

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To think about something from the past
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We got together and locked back at our old photos from uni; it was quite a trip down memory lane.

46
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To picked on

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To be treated unfairly or unkindly by others; usually done by children

When I was at school, I used to get picked on by a bunch of older students

47
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To get by

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To manage to live using just the money, knowledge or equipment that you have

How does she get by on such a small salary?

48
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Aim towards

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To move in direction is something you want to achieve

I’am eventually aiming towards becoming a doctor

49
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To look out for

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To take care of something and make sure nothing bad happens to them

I was lucky that I had a group of friends who always looked out for me

50
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to beaver away

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to work very hard at smth
beaver – [ˈbiːvə] бобр

The students beveared away int the library the day defore their exam

51
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a little bird told me

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to pass on new information we heard from someone and we necessarily don’t disclosure from who

52
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to take the bull by the horns

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to take initiative and seize [siːz]
and an opportunity

I took the bull by the horns and asked my boss for promotion

53
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Holy cow!

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expresses the surpise or shows excitement

54
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to lark around

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lark [lɑːk] жаворонок
to be very playful
They didn’t get any work done and spend all day just larking around

55
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to clam up

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to suddenly become very shy and stop talking
clam [klæm] малюск
I always clam up at interviews

56
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to rabbit on [about smth.]

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when you are so enthusiastic, you just don’t stop talking about a subject
Oh, sorry, I was rabbiting on for hours

57
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fishy

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when smth appears suspicious [səsˈpɪʃəs]
Something fishy is going on here.
His excuses sounded fishy to me

sometime used ‘smells fishy’

58
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to fish for smth.

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to try to obtain smth indirectly

She fished for information about her neighbours

59
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hold your horses

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instructs the listener to wait and not be so impatient

Hold your horses; we have plenty of time until the train leaves

60
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to be a pussy cat

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person or a creature is especially gentle

John might be big, but he is real a pussy cat

61
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to be a dark horse

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when you surprise people with you talants or lifestyle

I didn’t know Colin could sign; what a dark horse!

62
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to be or to come straight from the horse’s mouth

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the information you are giving is firsth-hand, you can trust that it’s authentic [ɔːˈθentɪk] (подлинный)

Simon’s quite; I heard it straight from the horse’s mouth.

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To end up

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To find one’s self in a certain position or situation that was not planned

We ended up getting an earlier flight because we got into a big fight with her parents

64
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To lead one down that route

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To follow a particular course of action

Well, growing up in a family of artists led me down that route

65
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To sell somebody on something

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To convince someone that something is good or has value

My mum sold me on the idea of becoming a lawyer when I was quite young

66
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To knock down

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To reduce the price

She is my good friend so she agreed to knock down the price of the tv she was selling

67
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to cut down on

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to do or use less of something

Dean wants to cut down on how much meat he eats

68
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to make a conscious effort

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[ˈkɒnʃəs] - сознательный
to make a deliberate [dɪˈlɪbərɪt] (преднамеренный, целенаправленный) attempt at something

We make a conscious effort to eat together as a family at least five times a week

69
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to wear off

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to gradually disappear

The novelty /ˈnɒvlti/ (he quality of being new and interesting) of living with seven other people wore off

70
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to be partial to

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to have a liking for something

My aunt is partial to Greek wine

71
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the posh kind or the cheap kind

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a phrase to ask if someone wants an expensive or cheaper version of something

I’m buying some biscuits. Do you want the posh kind or the cheap kind?

72
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Well off

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Rich

He is so well off, he doesn’t know what to spend his money on.

Young people today don’t know how well off they are.

73
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Better off

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The comparative form of well off. I.e. richer.

He is far better off than I am.

Also can be used to mean “it would be better for you”.

You should be better off going to the motorway than taking a country route, if you want arrive there at 6 o’clock.

74
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To go off

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1) To go bad. Become stale, unfresh

Don’t be so fussy! I’m sure those sausages haven’t gone off.

2) to ring — alarm clock/ bell

My alarm clock went off an hour earlier than it was supposed to this morning.

75
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to cope with

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to be able to tolerate, manager, bear a situation or person

I really looking forward to my parents going away. I can’t cope with them at the moment.

76
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to come over / to go over

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1) to come to someone’s house
I’m going over to Perer’s tonight.

2) to visit from abroad
My parents are coming over from Russia

3) to make someone do or say somehting strang and not common, out of character. Generally used with I don’t know what…
It’s unsusual my son to call me three time a week. I woder what has come over him.

4) to give a certain first expression
He come over as a real show-off but acctually he’s quite shy.

5) to be successfully communicated, understood (e.g. message, idea, pitch)
I’ve been going off him recently and besides, his kind of humour doesn’t really come over well on TV.

77
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to come round to

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to agree on something eventually – often after a lot of persuation, or with no alternative

She can’t cope with the thought of moving so soon after her husband’s death, but give her a couple of months an we’ll almost come round to the idea.

78
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to turn up

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1) to increase volume, power

2) to arrive/come
I’m sorry I didn’t turn up yestreday but I had to go over to my brother’s.

3) to appear – often which has been lost.
I know you have been looking for a job for ages. But I am sure something will turn up.
Note: Can’t be used as “I have turned up key.. Correct: My keys turned up

79
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to turn down

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  1. Adjust volume
  2. reject something offered or proposed.
    “his novel was turned down by publisher after publisher”

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