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Phrasal verbs Flashcards

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Fell out

A

I had a- falling out

an argument

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Put up with

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Tolerate ( I don’t like but I do it)

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Making out

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Pretending

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To deliver/ give

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Speech

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4
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Raise funds

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Get money

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Gather
Get
Collet

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Information

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To carry on

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Continue

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Dull (adj)

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Boring

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To move up the ladder: the process of moving up

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Getting promoted in a company

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To go the extra mile

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When you do more work than is expected of you

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To do something at your expense

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When you do sth and pay for it yourself

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To pop down to the supermarket

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Quick trip to do one job and then return

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To be hooked on sth

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To be addicted to sth

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Sth slips your mind

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I always forget this thing

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14
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To look a million dollars

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Sb looks amazing/ gorgeous

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15
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Starving

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Very hungry

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16
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A lack of

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Miss sth / no complete

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17
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To be fried

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Lose your job ( you made a mistake)

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To be made redundant

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Lose your job ( they don’t need you)

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19
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To do sth worthwhile

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Meaningful

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20
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To commute

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To travel from home to work and back each day.

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To keep on top of things

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To keep up

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22
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To stretch sb

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Boring

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23
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To feel out of my depth

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Boring

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To be under pressure

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Stress

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To perform an operation

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To have an operation

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Can’t afford sth

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Don’t have enough money to buy sth

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Out of the blue

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Unexpected

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Drawback

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Disadvantage

29
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A testing time

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Difficult time

30
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Popping into

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Fast going to somewhere

31
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Bring/ brought about

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To cause something happen

32
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Brought along

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Bring someone come with you

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To have a reputation for sth

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To be well known as

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As if

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Like

35
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Her not to pay

Give

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Attention

36
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Little change of

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Sth

37
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Overwhelming

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OMG

Too many feelings in the same time

38
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Run of the mill

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Predictable 
The same ( movies)
39
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To escape

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From reality

40
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To get away from

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Reality

Every day life

41
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To survey

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Statistics

Questions

42
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To have an insatiable

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Appetite for sth

con never be satisfactory

43
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There is a wide range of

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Many choices

44
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To have a different perspective on

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Something

45
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To have strong political / religious

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Convictions

46
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To be

Have in a bad temper

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Sb who easily gets angry

47
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Sb is a household name

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Famous person, everyone knows in that country

48
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Sb who beats around the bush

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Person never say the things direct way

49
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To have a short fuse

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Get upset quickly

50
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To work out

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To calculate

51
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To do sth up

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To decorate

52
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To turn in

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To go to bed

53
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To look after sb/sth

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To protect

54
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To get at sth

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To reach

55
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To cut down

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To reduce ( doctor )

56
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To take off

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To remove

57
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To put forward

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To suggest

58
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To hold on

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To wait

59
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To built

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To assemble

60
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To pour money into sth

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To invest a lot of money

61
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To be taken for granted

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When sb doesn’t appreciate the hard work

62
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Sth/ sb makes you flip

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Makes you angry

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