Phrasal verbs

Question 1

To originate

Answer 1

Stem from

Question 2

To suddenly realize the reality of something

Answer 2

Down on

Question 3

To do a piece of work badly

Answer 3

Botched up

Question 4

To take something or someone somewhere else suddenly and quickly

Answer 4

Whisked away

Question 5

To get warm

Answer 5

Thaw out
Example: Come thaw out over here by the fire.
I was planning on thawing some chicken breasts

Question 6

To spread a story that is uncertain or untrue

Answer 6

Putting about

Question 7

To improve someone´s behaviour

Answer 7

Straighten out

Question 8

To give more information or detail in order to make something complete

Answer 8

Flesh out

Example: I can’t judge your story in its current state—you need to flesh it out more and then resubmit it.

Question 9

To compete for the best position

Answer 9

Jockey for

Question 10

To ask someone questions to find out their views

Answer 10

Sound out

Question 11

Be nice to someone in order to get them to do what you want

Answer 11

Butter up

A student tried to butter the teacher up.

Question 12

To spend a lot of money

Answer 12

Shell out

Question 13

To have a strong desire for something

Answer 13

Hanker after

Example: I hanker after a nice big beefsteak for dinner.

Question 14

To deal with a problem without letting it affect you

Answer 14

Rise above

Question 15

To encourage people to get emotional about something

Answer 15

Whipping up

Question 16

To make a lot of progress

Answer 16

Forged ahead

Example: The start of my presentation did not go as I had hoped, but I had to just forge ahead and keep talking.

Question 17

To be written in a particular type of language

Answer 17

Couched in

Example: He tended to couch his explanations in arcane vocabulary. She couched her words in an overly polite manner.

Question 18

To support

Answer 18

Prop (me) up

Question 19

To suddenly attempt to hit someone

Answer 19

Lash out

Question 20

To find someone and force them out of their hiding place

Answer 20

Flush out

Question 21

To sell a business/

To set something apart from a group

Answer 21

Hive off

Question 22

To avoid dealing with a question or issue

Answer 22

Skirt around

Example: He always skirts around the issue whenever I bring up pay raises for the people on my team.

Question 23

To want something very much

Answer 23

Yearn for

Example: I grew up in a tiny town in Kansas, yearning for the day I’d get a chance to move somewhere exciting

Question 24

To move ahead with something

Answer 24

Plough/plow ahead

Question 25

To act as if you're superior to someone else

Answer 25

Lord over

Question 26

The same as

Answer 26

Every bit as

Question 27

To be eradicated

Answer 27

To be stamp out

Question 28

To make weaker or less controversial

Answer 28

Water down

Question 29

To force a change of behaviour

Answer 29

Imping on

Question 30

To reduce the price of something

Answer 30

Mark down

Question 31

To tell someone about something which is happening, that others want to keep secret

Answer 31

Tip off

Question 32

To supply money for something, often reluctantly

Answer 32

Stump up

Question 33

To have fun being silly

Answer 33

Lark about

Question 34

Succed in doing something that is difficult

Answer 34

Pull of

Question 35

Examine something carefully

Answer 35

Scope up

Question 36

Emptied out from the inside

Answer 36

Hollowed out

Question 37

Start doing something with vigour or determination

Answer 37

Set about

Question 38

To interfere or try to change something when others do not want you to

Answer 38

Meddle with | Example: I would have gotten away with the money laundering if you hadn't gone meddling with the financial accounts!

Question 39

To lose consciousness

Answer 39

Black out

Question 40

Discuss in detail in order to find a solution

Answer 40

Thrash out Example: We had to stay an extra two hours thrashing this issue out. We're organizing a committee to thrash out the homelessness crisis in the city.

Question 41

To achieve a victory

Answer 41

Chalk up

Question 42

To be prevented from doing what you want to do by something

Answer 42

Hemmed in | Example: The terms of this contract really have me hemmed in—even my lawyer can't see a way out.

Question 43

To be given a task or responsability that is unwanted

Answer 43

Saddled with

Question 44

Something bad happened to someone but they were not responsible for the fact it happened

Answer 44

Through no fault of someone´s own

Question 45

To steal

Answer 45

Knock off

Question 46

Offering to help someone immediatly they ask for it

Answer 46

Say the word

Question 47

Tell someone about something that has been troubling you

Answer 47

Get something off your chest

Question 48

Tell someone directly how angry you are

Answer 48

Give someone a piece of your mind

Question 49

To keep talking about an unpleasant memory that someone would prefer to forget

Answer 49

Rake over | Example: I don't want to rake over past arguments. They insisted on raking the story over many times.

Question 50

To try many methods of solving a problem

Answer 50

Grapple with

Question 51

To send someone off somewhere in a hurry

Answer 51

Bundled off | Example: Unfortunately, I had to bundle my wailing son off to my sister so that I wouldn't miss my flight.

Question 52

Suggest that they will deal with it

Answer 52

Make all the right noise

Question 53

To spend time doing something while waiting for something to happen

Answer 53

Whiled away

Question 54

To become familiar with

Answer 54

Acquaint with

Question 55

To extend a business into new areas

Answer 55

Branch out

Question 56

To encourage someone to do something

Answer 56

Coax into

Question 57

To sell to the highest bidder

Answer 57

Auction off

Question 58

To rely on

Answer 58

Bank on

Question 59

To use more resources or money than was expected

Answer 59

Eat into

Question 60

To end in a disappointing way

Answer 60

Fizzle out

Question 61

To go to different shops to compare prices before buying

Answer 61

Shop around

Question 62

To gradually discover or deduce the truth about something

Answer 62

Piece together

Question 63

To be full of emotion or feeling

Answer 63

Brim over

Question 64

To think or speak about a subject a great deal

Answer 64

Dwell on

Question 65

To form a business partnership or working relationship with them

Answer 65

Go in with

Question 66

To hide a difficulty or a mistake

Answer 66

Paper over