Prasal verb Flashcards
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ring sb up
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-to make a phone call to someone:
+She rang me up to say she couldn’t come.
2
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shut sb up
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-to close a store or other business for a period of time, usually when business is finished for the day:
+By the time we got there, all the market traders were shutting up.
-to keep somebody/something in a place and prevent them from going anywhere +She can’t spend her whole life shut up in her office.
3
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hang up
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-hang up
to end a phone conversation by putting down the phone receiver or pressing the ‘end call’ button
+I phoned him this morning but when I said who I was he hung up
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