random phrasals

Question 1

call up

Answer 1

1. PHRASAL VERB
   If you call someone up, you phone them.
   [mainly US]

• When I’m in Pittsburgh, I call him up.
• He called up the museum.
  Sometimes I’d even call up at 4 am

2 British English to officially order someone to join the army, navy, or air force SYN draft American English

• I was called up three months after war broke out.

3 call somebody ↔ up to choose someone for a national sports team

• Neymar was called up for the world cup

4 call something ↔ up to produce something or make it appear

• She can call up the spirits of the dead.

5 call something ↔ up if you call up information on a computer, you make the computer show it to you

• I called up their website, but it didn’t have the information I was looking for.

Question 2

take in

Question 3

wrap up

Answer 3

1 – Comecemos com wrap up significando “embrulhar”:

• Don’t forget to wrap up Dan’s present before you go to the party.
• When my mom bought the present, she asked the cashier to wrap it up for her.

2 – Veja agora wrap up significando “agasalhar”:

• I love cold days when you wrap up in cosy winter clothes.
• The nanny wrapped up the children and sent them to the park.

3 – O terceiro significado de wrap up é “encerrar” ou “finalizar”: finish

• They are gonna sing to wrap up the event
• We ought to wrap up this meeting and get back to work.

4 - resumir

• The reporter wrapped up the mayor’s speech in a few sentences.
• can you wrap up what you meant?

Question 4

reach out to

Answer 4

1– Bem, vamos aos exemplos de reach out to. Primeiro vamos ver essa expressão no sentido de oferecer ajuda:

• Donations are vital to our ability to reach out to people around the world.
• We are reaching out to the most vulnerable members of the community.
  Nós estamos oferecendo ajuda aos membros mais vulneráveis da comunidade.

2– Abaixo, veja os exemplos de reach out to no sentido de pedir ajuda:

• She urged him to reach out to his family.
  Ela o encorajou a pedir ajuda da família dele.
• The CLL reached out to the people in their comunity
• is reach out to investors.

Question 5

wipe out

Answer 5

/waɪp/
1 – Primeiramente, wipe out no sentido de matar ou “apagar” alguém”:
- This disease could wipe many of the villagers out.
- Lefty wiped out Max’s gang.

2 – Wipe out como destruir, arruinar algo:
- A silly remark wiped the politician’s reputation out completely.
- The loss of my job wiped us out.
- A mudslide wiped out the road to the village.
O deslizamento de lama destruiu a estrada para a vila.

3 – Wipe out no sentido de esgotar:
- a long practice will wipe them out
- The early-morning meetings really wipe me out.
- The company’s renewed sales wiped their debts out completely.

4 – Por fim, wipe out como cair de algum lugar:
- At the top of the hill, I wiped out and nearly hit another skier..
- I wiped out and skinned my knee.
Eu caí e esfolei meu joelho.

Question 6

keep someone on

Answer 6

• manter alguem em um emprego
• i though they were going to fire my dad, but i guess they´re gonna keep him on

Question 7

kick back

Answer 7

/kɪk/ - informal
to stop doing things and relax:
- What good is life if a guy can’t kick back and watch a good movie?
To relax:

• She has no plans to kick back, and her schedule is as busy as ever.
• We like to kick back and relax after work.