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Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

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Cutlery?

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fork, knife and spoon

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Crockery?

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plates and bowls

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Whisk?

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An object to mix ingredients

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To chop up?

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To cut

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Sink?

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Pia

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Tap?

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Torneira

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Drying rack or dish rack?

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A place to put dishes to dry

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Savoury?

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Opposite of sweet

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Warts?

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Verrugas /uarts/

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Flea?

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Pulga

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Mice?

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Plural of mouse

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Toad?

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Sapo

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Rare?

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Middle point of meat

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Broom?

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Vassoura

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Hawl?

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Uivar

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Graveyards?

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Cemiterio

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Cackle?

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Gargalhar

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Drool?

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Babar

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Wash up

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Limpar

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Win back

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Recuperar

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Hold up

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Realizar-se

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Mix up

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Misturar

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Cupboard

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Place to put crockery and cutlery

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Top shelf?

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Prateleira superior

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Compliment?

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Elogio

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Hand kerchief?

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Silk tissue

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Waistcoat?

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A sleeveless waist-length garment with buttons at the front, often worn under a suit jacket

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Sleeves?

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Mangas de camisa

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Dressing gown?

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Roupao/robe

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Nightdress?

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Camisola

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Overalls?

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Macacao

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Overcoat or anorak?

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Sobretudi

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Tights?

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Meia-calça

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Soles?

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Solas

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Turn-up?

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Inesperado-aparecer de forma inesperada

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Aprons? /aiprons/

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Aventais

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Dungarees?

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Jardineiras

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Bow?

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Arco

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Silk scarf?

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Lenço de seda

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High-heeled boots?

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Botas de salto alto

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Clumsy(adj)?

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Uncoordinated

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41
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To grumble about sth

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To complain

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Absolutely/really mortified

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Very/really embarrassed sb/sth

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We are in the same page.

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We have the same opinion

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Shopaholic (n.person)

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A person who buys without limit

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Wild(adj)

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A wild animal (not domestically)

To go wild (to go crazy in a party-way)

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To fix sth

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To repair sth

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To fix sth to sth

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To attach/to put on

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To be sneaks

Or to be sneaks aboard

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To move quietly and secretly in order to avoid being noticed

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In the wild

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In the nature

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Vividly

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You remember very well

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Vaguely

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You don’t remember very clear

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Out of breath

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Ofegante

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To learn/appreciate the value of money

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.

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Conceited (adj)

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You feel better than everything

Vaidoso/metido

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To maintain (v) / maintenance (n)

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To drive up costs/rents

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To increase the price of rents/costs

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Creepy /i:/ (adj)

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Strange or scary, causing people to feel nervous and afraid in a sexual meaning

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To get/have frostbite (n)

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When your body freeze because low temperature

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Hypothermia

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When you get really cold, when your temperature goes really down

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Concussion (n)

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Just for head pain

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To go into sock (n)

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The mind doesn’t work well in this situation

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62
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To feel dizzy

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Your body feel sick after go to a roller coaster

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Roller coaster

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In a park like Disney

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A volcano errupts

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To drown

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To die by being underwater too long and unable to breathe

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Tornado/twister(informal)

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Lightning (n) strikes (n)

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The flashes of light that are produced in a storm

Attack

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To dig a hole

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Dig dug dug

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To be deaf (adj) / deafness (n)

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He is completely deaf and so has never heard my voice

Deaf blind mute

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To rescue (v)

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It took 15 hours for the relief team to rescue him

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Shovel (n) /shavel/

A

Pá

72
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To stay afloat

A

When I fell in the water my energy was low and it was difficult to stay afloat

73
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Death

A

Without life

74
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To stay up?

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I really regret staying up too late to watch the film last night

75
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Hang out

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I hung out my friends last night (meet friends)

I hung out the clothes yesterday (put clothes to dry)

76
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Hang up

A

I hang up the phone. I finish our conversation (finish a call)

I hang up your shirt into the wardrobe (put clothes into the wardrobe)

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Hang off

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I hang off the phone. I finish our conversation (finish a call)

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Go to a film

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Go to the cinema

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To watch a film

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View/look at a film

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To do the shopping

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To buy food, food shopping

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To go to the shops or go shopping

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Just walk through the shops

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To set sb heart on sth

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To focus

I set my heart on getting a job

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Take in

A

Apertar/ajustar

Those trousers are too big. Why don’t you have them take in?

84
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Plain colour

A

Cor lisa

I don’t like a pattern. I prefer a plain colour

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Give sb away

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To reveal

The thief wore gloves so that his fingerprints didn’t give him away

86
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Roll up

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If I wear a long sleeved shirt, I roll up the sleeves

87
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Left out

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Excluded

Not knowing the language I felt really left out

88
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Set in

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To become established

The winter has set in

89
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Give sb in

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Reconhecer a derrota

To acknowledge defeat; yield

90
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Give sth out

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To inform

That’s information that I’m not prepared to give out

91
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Give sb up

A

To make sb quit

92
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Fall out

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Drop (sb)

I can’t work in these high-heeled boots. I keep falling out

93
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Fall off

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Drop (sth)
To diminish in size, intensity
The business fell off after Christmas

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Fall back

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To recede or retreat

A fall back position

95
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Fall over

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To fall from an upright position

The vase fell over

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Get at

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To mean, to intend

What do you mean? What are you getting at?

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Make for

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To help to bring about

Your cooperation will make for the success of our project

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Put aside or put away

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To save
I’m
Putting aside money every week to buy a new sport jacket

99
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Turn in

A

To hand in, deliver

To turn in an essay

100
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Go in for

A

To enter

Some people in my town go in for strange haircuts!

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Look through

A

To ignore

Whenever he meets her, she looks straight trough him

102
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Look around

A

Before we choose a dress, let’s look around the shops.

103
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Give up/quit smoking

A

.

104
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To drop out of university/school/course

A

When you stop before it finishes

105
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Feel depressed/blue/down (in the dumps)

A

.

106
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To cheer sb/yourself up

A

When I’m felling down I usually/tend to eat chocolate/listen to music

I cheer myself up by calling my mom when I’m down

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To keep busy

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To take your mind of things

I like to cook to take my mind/to escape of things

108
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Match (n)

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To light/strike a match

To make the fire

109
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To have money to burn

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To be rich

He’s got money to burn

110
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A hypocrite (n person)

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Do as I say and not as I do

111
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To put your money where your mouth is

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Stop talking about doing and do it

112
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To be short (of money)

To be broke (adj)

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Without money

113
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To be flush(adj)/loaded(adj)/wealthy(formal)

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Much money-rich

114
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To be confortable

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To get by

115
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To be in debt to sb

A

I’m in debt. I owe money to the bank

116
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Budget (v/n)
In budget
Out of budget
To have/make a budget

A

When you plan your salary

117
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To live within your means

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Save money, follow your goal

118
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To be/live on a tight budget

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To live with short money

119
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To give money away

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Spend money without purpose

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To lend to a friend

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To borrow money to friend

121
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To have a high/low standard of living

A

Padrao de vida

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Frugal (adj)

A

A person that save money

123
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Tight/fisted

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Mao de vaca

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Thrifty (+)/stingy (-)

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A person who doesn’t spend money

125
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Bottle opener

A

The object to open the beer

126
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To screw /scru/

A

An action to close the bottle

127
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To unscrew

A

An action to open the bottle

128
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Cork

A

Rolha

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Corkscrew

A

The object to open a wine

130
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Sink(n) tap(n) pipe(n)

A

From the kitchen

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Basin(n)

A

=sink but in the toilet

132
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Toilet seat(n)

A

The men always leave the toilet seat stand

133
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Fence

A

Cerca

134
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Bake Pan
Cake pan
Saucepan
Frying pan

A

.

135
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Pen lid
Pan lid
Or just lid

A

.

136
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Wooden floor
Wood(n)
Wooden(adj)
Floor board

A

Piso de madeira

137
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Jam pot - can be ceramic/metal/plastic

Jam jar - make of class

A

.

138
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Toilet/kitchen roll

A

The paper

139
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Tweezers

A

Pinça

140
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To tweeze/pluck(more common) a hair

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Fazer a sobrancelha

141
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Rock(n)

A

Big stone

142
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Branch(n)

A

Tronco

Very big twig

143
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Twig(n)

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Galho

Little branch, you can take

144
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Twiggy(adj)

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For models

Really really thin/slim

145
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Hammer /rama/

A

Martelo

146
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String(n)

A

Barbante/cordao

Made of cotton

147
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Hanger

A

Cabide

148
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A sheet of paper

A

Folha de papel

149
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To take sth apart

A

Desmontar
To open
Take the hanger apart

150
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To prize sth open

A

To take the knife and force to open

151
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To block the leak/hole

A

You need to unblock

152
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Blockage /blockige/ (n)

A

Bloqueio

153
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To push sth down

A

You take the hanger apart and push the blockage down

154
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Venom (n)
Venomous (adj)
Antidote (n)

A

Poison from animals

155
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Prong

A

From a fork (dentes do garfo)

156
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Compelling

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Captivating

Intriguing

157
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To run of battery/food/gas

A

Completely finish
I ran out of battery
I ran out of credit on my Opal card

158
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To be/get out of control

A

To lose control

159
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Pick yourself up

A

To make yourself better

Cheer yourself up

160
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To look at the bright side of life

A

To be optimist

161
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To go through an unusual phases

A

To experience phases in your life
Or
To go through a difficult time

162
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To shape a young person’s personality

A

Influence and create sb personality

To shape a personality

163
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Thinking on your feet

A

Easy to make quick decision, not indecisive

164
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Come up with ideas

A

To think of an idea

165
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Fancy going

A

To want to do sth

166
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To settle down

A

To be responsible
To make a family

Past is settled

167
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Rocket(n)

Rocketing(v)

A

Foguete
Go to space

The economy rocketing (for informal business)

168
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To tackle a problem

A

To face a problem

169
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End-up doing sth

A

The result of story

170
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To run experiments

A 
To conduct (formal)
To carry out (phrasal verb)
To do (boring)
171
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To switch from sth to sth else

A

To change

Choose A or B
The meaning of change (the structure, for example photoshop) is to alter

172
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To lead to sth

A

Result

If you keep working hard it will lead to have a heart attack

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