These are Phurusal Word Flashcards
ABP - Ask s/o Out
ABP - to invite someone to come with you to a place such as the cinema or a restaurant, especially as a way of starting a romanticrelationship:
SYN: Make a date, Ask for a date
- “She’s asked Steve out to the cinema this evening.”*
- “You should ask her out sometime.”*
- “When I asked her out to go to the cinema, I am remembering as like a yesterday what she wore all kind of clothes.”*
ABP - Break up (with)
ABP - If a marriage breaks up or two peoplein a romantic relationship break up, theirmarriage or their relationship ends:
SYN: Dispers, Disband, Seperate, Split
- “Do you know anyone who has broken up recently? What are the most common reasons for people breaking up?”*
- “I had a friend who was loved by me in the past. We had spent most of our time together in those days. But he lied to me. He tried to cheat me. He was such a crafty boy that he could any kind of lie easily. Finally I have had decition to broken up with him. Sometimes, Breaking up with someone can be best option. After breaking up with them, everything can be better than before.”*
ABP - Get along
ABP - if two or more people get along, they have a friendly relationship;
- “Who do you get along with best: Friends or family members? Why?”*
- “I like getting along with my family. I can share everything we want with them. The getting along with them makes me very happy. If we can getting along any people who are wanted by us, we must know that it is our wealth.At the same time, I sometimes would prefer getting along with supporters of Ankaragücü. Our aim is neither watching the match nor seeing the goals. Our objective is just the getting along.”*
ABP - Go Away
ABP - to leave a place or person:
“Go away and leave me alone! I went away wondering if I’d said the wrong thing.”
ABP - Hang out
ABP - informal to spend a lot of time in a particular place or with particular people:
- “I don’t really know who she hangs out with.”*
- “Where do the youngsters hang out?”*
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ABP - Meet up (with)
APB - to meet someone in order to do something together. get together to go somewhere else.
SYN: Run into, Came across
- “Where do you usually meet up with your friends? Why?”*
- “We want to meet up with together once a week. Because, we like getting along with together and then we always go to the Ankaragücü Match together. After the all of us meet up with together, we usually prefer to drink something. The reason all of us can meet up with together is MKE Ankaragücü. This team has a huge effect on us. Sometimes, we meet up with supporters of Ankaragücü but we can’t meet up with our family enough.”*
ABP - Show up
ABP - informal to arrive, especially at the place where someone is waiting for you.
SYN: Appear, Come, Get in
- “Do you have any friends who always show up late? Does this annoy you? Why/Why not?”*
- “If I wait someone whenever I want, I want to meet them on the time. If they show up late, It has a problem for me. I can complain in order to this. Sometimes, they can show up suddenly whenever I don’t expect. If I run into with them suddenly, I can be such a astonished person that I may forget speaking about anything. That they show up suddenly makes me astonishing.”*
ABP - Take in
to be completely deceived by someone who lies to you.
- Don’t be taken in by products claiming to help you lose weight in a week.*
- The salesman finds it easy to take in old ladies.*
- Our club plan to take in 20 new members.*
- Fish take in oxygen through their gills.*
- The cells elongate as they take in water.*
- do you take in your tea?*
- Several families take in foreign students.*
ABP - Talk s/o Over
ABP - to discuss a problem with someone before deciding what to do:
“Talk over any worries with your GP.”
ABP- Break Down
ABP- if a car or machine breaks down, it stops working:
- “The car broke down just north of Paris.”*
- “The printing machines are always breaking down.”*
ABP- Carry on
ABP- to continue doing something;
- if you carry on a particular kind of work or activity, you do it or take part in it:
- to have a sexual relationship with someone, when you should not:
- “Sorry, I interrupted you. Please carry on.”*
- “He stopped and looked back, then carried on down the stairs.”*
ABP- Count on
ABP- to depend on someone or something, especially in a difficult situation:
- ” You can count on me.”*
- “With luck, you might cover your costs, but don’t count on it.”*
- to expect something:
“The presence of Paula was one thing he hadn’t counted on.”
“We didn’t count on so many people being on vacation.”
ABP- Cut Back
ABP- Reduce the amount that you usually spend.
EXAM: If you cut back, you reduce the amount of money you usually spend.
The government has announced plans to to cut back on defence spending by 10% next year.
ABP- Drop Out
ABP - to no longer do an activity or belong to a group:
“The group gets smaller as members move away or drop out.”
ABP- Fork Out
ABP- Spend a lot of money on something.
EXAM: If you spend lots of money on an item, you fork out.
- I had to fork out $30 for a cab home.*
- He will have to fork out for private school fees for Nina.*
- I had to fork out ￡600 on my car when I had it serviced.*
- They had to fork out $ 100 to get the lorry repaired!*
ABP- Get By
ABP- Survive day to day, especially financially.
EXAM: To get by means to survive day to day, esually in financial terms.
- How can he get by on so little money?*
- I’m a survivor. I’ll get by.*
- She can’t get by on such a small income.*
ABP- Go off
ABP- if an alarm goes off, it makes a noise to warn you about something
- “The thieves ran away when the alarm went off.”*
- “I’ve set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.”*
ABP- Hand Over
to give something to someone with your hand, especially because they have asked for it or should have it.
ABP- Make Up
ABP- to forgive someone and become friendsagain after an argument or disagreement:
“We argue all right, but we always make up before long.”
ABP- Pay Off
ABP- give back all the money you owe for something.
- Thankfully, I managed to pay off all my debts before we got married.*
- I need to pay off all my debts before I leave the country.*
- He managed to pay off his debts in two years.*
- He is accused of misappropriating $30 000 to pay offgambling debts.*
ABP- Pick up
ABP- to let someone get into your car, boat etc and take them somewhere.
- “I’ll pick you up at the station.”*
- “The survivors were picked up by fishing boats from nearby villages.”*
ABP- Run Into
ABP- informal to meet someone by chance;
SYN: Contact, Come across, meet up with,
- “When did you last run into someone you know? Were you glad to see him/her?”*
- “If I will be able to see anyone who is not seen by me in a long time, I am such a willing person that I want to run into with him/her. After I run into her, I can talk to her. But when I run into her, if she don’t want to talk to me, I directly go away from her. The running into her on the street makes me sad.”*
collide with.
“he ran into a lamppost”
eş anlamlısı:collide with, be in collision with,
hit, strike, crash into, smash into, knock into,
plough into, barge into, meet head-on, ram;
impact
- “the plane was badly damaged when it ran*
- into a parked aircraft”*
2. reach (a level or amount).
“debts running into millions of dollars”
eş anlamlısı:reach, extend to, be as high/
much as
“Peter had been left with debts running
into six figures”
ABP- Run Out Of
ABP- If you use all of something and are left with nothing.
EXAM: If you use all of something and are left with nothing, you run out.
- 1, They have run out of ideas.*
- 2, Fears that the world was about to run out of fuel proved groundless.*
- 3, I have run out of patience with her.*
- 4, I’ve run out of milk/money/ideas/patience.*
- 5, Local authorities will run out of money part way through the financial year.*
ABP- Save Up
ABP- To accumulate money to use in the future.
EXAM: If you save up, you accumulate money to use in the future.
- It took me ages to save up enough money to go travelling.*
- You should save up and get a house.*
- I’m trying to save up for my holiday.*
- People often put money aside in order to save up enough to make one major expenditure.*
ABP- Set out
ABP- to start doing something or making plans to do something in order to achieve a particular result.
“salesmen who deliberately set out to defraud customers”
ABP- Take Out
ABP- make a financial agreement with a bank or company.
- Take out accident insurance before you go on your trip.*
- I had to take out a loan to buy my car.*
ABP- Take up
ABP- to become interested in a new activity and to spend time doing it:
“Roger took painting up for a while, but soon lost interest.”
ABP- Turn in
ABP- to give a piece of work you have done to a teacher, your employer etc. (Deliver, Accord, Hand over)
“Have you all turned in your homework assignments”
ABPC- Catch on
- to become popular and fashionable;2. become popular.
The idea of glasses being a fashion item has been slow to catch on.
- to begin to understand or realize something;-1. understand, usually after some initial difficulty
It was a long time before the police caught on to what he was really doing.
ABPC- Lose Out
to not have an advantage that other people have:
- He didn’t want to lose out to the other salesmen.
- The deal will ensure that shareholders do not lose outfinancially.
- Workers who don’t take up training may lose out on promotion.
- If things go wrong I’m the one who’ll lose out, not you.
- I don’t think the cinema will lose out to television.
Carry Out
to perform or complete a job or activity; to
fulfill:
- “I was elected to carry out a program, the*
- governorsaid, and I have every intention of*
- carrying it out.”*
