Phrasal Verbs Flashcards
To be down
To be sad , depressed
He’s been down recently. Do you know what happened ?
To be fed up
You have enough for something
-I am fed up with your excuses
To be loaded
To be rich ( informal )
To be drunk ( formal)
- the girls family is loaded
Count down
10,9,8,7…
To cut corners
To do something in the easiest, fastest, or cheapest way
-if she hadn’t cut corners with writing her resume, she would have landed a job by now
Cut to the chase
To stop rambling and get straight to the point, not wasting time on unimportant things
-Lets cut to the chase
To ditch
To leave an event, abandon or get rid of something that you no longer need
-the TV show was ditched due to low ratings
Down in the dumps
To be depressed or unhappy
-He is a bit down in the dumps after he failed his exam
Cheeky
1.Someone who is a little bit rude but in a playful and innocent way
-that’s so cheeky. No, you can’t
2. Is used when doing something unplanned
A cheeky cup of tea
Chinwag
A normal long conversation with friends
- We went on a picnic and we had a good old chinwag
Chock a block or chocka
Full of people or things
**- We won’t go to the cinema today because it will be chock a block *
Go dutch
To split the bill or to agree to share the cost of something
I’d rather go Dutch
A golden opportunity
To have a chance to do something that is likely to succeed
- This house is a golden opportunity-you can resell it in five years
A fizzy drink
Carbonated beverage
A fluke
Happened by chance , as a coincidence
-How did you pass your driving test? It was a fluke
To be gobsmacked
To be shocked that you can’t speak
-I was go smacked when I won the competition
A hard act to follow/ a tough act to follow
Is used when someone is so good at doing something that the person who comes next is going to have a really difficult time to be as good as them
-whoever wins the student election will have a tough act to follow
To keep one’s cool
Stay calm
luckily, he kept his cool and didn’t get in a fight with them
Yo leave someone on read
To read messages but never reply to them
-She left me on read
In a manner of speaking
Used to say something is generally true but not 100% true
-did they hire you? In a manner of speaking, yes, but they never formally asked me
In a nutshell
Briefly or in simple terms
**in a nutshell , could you tell me your life stories? **
Banger
Really good song
