hi everybody and welcome back to love English I'm Sabra I'm a British
University English teacher today I've got a very vocabulary lesson for you
all about phrasal verbs oh I know they're a bit of a headache but they're
so useful for being able to understand daily English conversations so we are going to
do 30 so make sure you have a pen paper at the ready as you're going to need it
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UK ok let's get started so number one number one is to bring up to
bring something up or you can also say to bring up you can put the object in
between the verb and the preposition or after it so bring up it's really when we
introduce a new topic to the conversation we probably haven't
mentioned it before so we're bringing it up we're raising it for example you might
say I brought up the matter of my pay rise with my boss today meaning I I
raised this with my boss I mentioned it without having previously discussed it
to bring something up there is a second meaning for bring up but it's rather
less pleasant I'll mention it very quickly the other meaning of bring up is
to vomit so to bring something up can mean a little bit more literally to
bring it up let's not talk about that anymore
shall we ok number two is bring about bring about bring about means to cause
or create something for example you might say that something brought about
change for example the new government really brought about change in the
country for example you might say brexit is going to bring about a lot of changes
in terms of the British economy and jobs it does tend to be used a little bit
more formally actually this phrasal verb and it tends to be used about bigger
situations like politics but you can use it in daily life so number three is to
come up with to come up with something means to think of a new
idea that a new idea has come to you for example you might say I've come up with
the answer to this question or I've come up with a solution to the problem or
I've come up with a great idea for a new project at work so with all of these you can
hear it it's about thinking of something new number four is to come across
something to come across something means to find something accidentally so for
example you might come across an old photo of yourself when you were a child
or you might come across a book which you've been looking for for ages and
had lost to find or encounter something by accident or not intentionally looking
for that thing to come across something number five is to come forward come
forward means that somebody presents themselves about something so the police
in official investigations often will say on the television if anyone has any
information about this crime please come forward it means please present yourself
in this situation so often it's quite an official phrasal verb we talk about
people coming forward with evidence people coming forward with information
they're presenting themselves officially in a certain situation number six number
six has two meanings the more literal meaning and the not literal meaning so
it's cut off to cut something off for example you might cut off the edge of
the bread the crust if you don't like eating those you can cut those off so
that's the literal meaning however when we speak about cutting someone off we
mean that we cut them from our lives we do not have contact with them anymore so
we might say she's cut her sister off putting the object the sister in the
middle which we tend to do with this phrasal verb usually if this happens
it's for a long period of time it's quite serious it's not like just having
a disagreement it's a bit more serious than that sometimes legal things can
also be discussed in this way so we can say his father cut him off without a
penny when he found out he committed a crime number seven a little bit more
positive phrasal verb this one is turn out how something turns out we don't put
the object in the middle here we keep the verb and the preposition together so
turnout means the result of something the end result of something so we can
say ahhh turned out to be a lovely day at the beginning of the day if it's cloudy
and you think that's going to be a rainy day but later the sun comes out and if
the sun stays out you can say ahh its turned out to be a lovely day
it's the final result so we can say the party turned out to be a success
this job has turned out to be really fun this job has turned out to be awful you
can also use this phrasal verb as a noun we can say there was a good turnout or a
bad turn out and this means that a lot of
people or not a lot of people came to an event or a party number eight
get back couple of meanings here get back to somebody means to return their
call to get back in touch with them so you'll often hear English speakers say
I'll get back to you about that meaning I'll return to you on this I'll be in
touch with you about this however there is a second meaning of get back get back
can also mean to have revenge on somebody to get back at we would say
here we might say I'm going to get back at you for this so he's going to get
back at her for that we can also use this in a jokey way my boyfriend loves
playing practical jokes on me and when he plays a good joke on me I always say
from I'm gonna get back at you for that just you wait I'm gonna get back at you
most of the time I'm not as good at playing jokes so I don't get back at him
but I'm saying it in a jokey way meaning I'm gonna get my revenge number
nine is to grow apart to grow apart so grown apart means that
you were close before close friends or close husband and wife or boyfriend and
girlfriend but after a while you become distant you change as people and you grow
apart so you're not as close as you were before so an example might be my husband
and I have really grown apart over the years we're not the people we were when
we first got married so it's a shame we've grown apart
number 10 allow for allow for something allow for means consider this
make arrangements for it bear this in mind so if you say make sure on this
holiday you allow for bad weather because it's often raining or allows for
long traffic delays as there are roadworks on the motorway it means take
this into consideration to allow for something number 11 is blow up something
blows up for example a car blows up it means it explodes or a house blows up it
means it explodes so that's the first very literal meaning the second meaning
however is not as literal it can't be but we use it to explain how we feel
about something so if somebody really gets angry and loses their temper and
starts to shout and be very unhappy about something you can say huh
they really blew up about that she blew up
over it or he blew up we can even say this as an idiom he blew his top about that
blew his top meaning it's almost like the top of his
head came off he was so angry so to blow up about something to get very angry
about something number 12 is to fall out to fall out
this is when you have an argument with a person or a disagreement and you stop
speaking for a period of time can be a long period of time or it can be a very
short period of time often if you're in a couple or a marriage you fall out and
might not speak to each other for a day or two and then you make up and you
become friends again some fall outs can be much longer people can fall out for
years hopefully not but that can happen Leila and I do sometimes fall out but we
usually make up again very very quickly number 13 to make up so that's one of
the meanings to become friends again however there are a couple of other
meanings as well makeup can also be to invent to make something up to make out
of no way if you like so you can make up a story it means you you think of the
story you can make up a lie you can make up a new recipe it means to think or to
create something don't confuse make up with the noun
makeup which is what ladies like to put on their faces that is a noun
makeup we tend not to use makeup in the phrasal verb in that way we use it as a
noun so I'm going to do my makeup I'm going to put my makeup on number 14 to
drag on to drag on is that something goes on for much longer than you thought
it would oh this meetings really dragging on or
this journeys really dragging on it means it's going on for much longer than
you thought it would and it's getting tiring and unenjoyable to drag means to
go slowly that really dragged to drag can also mean to pull something forcibly
like for example you might have to drag a very heavy sofa if you want to move it
number 15 is fall through something falls through this means something is
not a success it doesn't work it collapses
if you like so you can say my loan application fell through I didn't
succeed with getting my loan it fell through the application collapsed for
some reason or didn't succeed to fall through the sale of the house
fell through the opening of the new school fell through meaning it didn't
succeed this is an intransitive phrasal verb that we do not separate fall and
through we keep them together number 16 is ease off something eases off it stops
slowly for example you could say the rain is easing off meaning it's slowing
down it's coming to an end the rain is easing off you can also say all the pain
is easing off it's slowly starting to lessen you could also talk about a
very busy period in a shop or the tourist season you could say the
tourist season is easing off now it's slowing down it's lessening number 17 is
to get rid of to get rid of to get rid of means to throw away to dispose of so
you might say we need to get rid of all of our old clothes we need to throw them
away we need to get rid of them we need to get rid of the rubbish our old sofa
anything like that however you can use this for a person but if you use this
for a person it's very strong so if you're saying well we need to get rid of
that new member of staff she's no good we need to get rid of that new member of
staff in this case you mean you want to sack that member of staff or if you say
you want to get rid of your boyfriend or girlfriend it means you want to break up
with them usually we wouldn't use it in that way although some other people
might it is possible to use it in that context number 18 is to let down to let
someone down this is a transitive phrasal verb so you can actually put the
object in the middle and say I let my sister down I let someone down or you
can put it after I let down my sister for example so it's a transitive phrasal
verb to let down means to dissapoint if you say I really let my parents down
it means you've really disappointed them if your teacher says to you you've
really let me down often we can feel very bad if somebody
says this it's not very nice to hear I know if my parents say Sabrah you've
let me down I'm in trouble number 19 is to kick off to kick off and
this is to start or begin to kick off so if you say the concert is kicking off at 9
o'clock it's starting at 9 o'clock this expression came from football of course
kick off meaning the beginning of the game but we do use it for other things
as well number 20 is to make fun of to make fun of to make fun of means to
laugh about somebody to make jokes about them to tease them that kind of thing
not a very nice thing to do unless you're doing it in a very harmless way
we can also say to take the mickey out of someone which means to to make jokes
about them as well I talked about that and lots of other similar idioms in my
video on 20 British expressions which is just up there number 21 is to nod off to
nod off and this means to have a little sleep often in the day our parents if
they're older they might have a little nod off in their chair as they're
watching the television or if you're a new mom you might nod off when the baby
is sleeping things like that to have a little sleep to fall asleep not
necessarily intentionally number 22 is to own up to own up to is to confess to
say I did it so if you say okay it was me I did that you are owning up you are
confessing to that particular thing okay next one number 23 number 23 is payback
payback you'll often hear in Hollywood movies a character saying it's payback
time or this is payback very similar to get back at somebody often we use it in
a noun phrase we often say it's payback time number 24 is to rule out to rule
out if we rule something out so again this is a transitive phrasal verb so if
we rule something out we decide that something or someone is not suitable for
that particular situation or the information is not relevant or something
will not happen we rule it out for example the police might rule out a
suspect they might say no there wasn't enough evidence we're going to rule that
person out number 25 to point something out to point something out this is a
transitive phrasal verb so you can put the object
in the middle to point something out or you can also put it afterwards I pointed
out something if we are pointing out something we are telling somebody
information which they think either they do not know what we think they might
have forgotten I point out to my boyfriend what an amazing girlfriend I
am he sometimes forgets it number 26 is to stick up for somebody to stick up for
somebody or for something and this means to stand up for them to defend them or
to help them if they are being persecuted in some way or if people are
being unkind to them in some way so often we would say I stuck up for a boy
at school who other children were making fun of but other children were picking
on - another phrasal verb we'll talk about that one in a minute so this means that we've
stood up and said stop being horrible or in some way we've defended that
particular person you can also stick up for a cause so you can say oh I'm
sticking up for animals or I'm sticking up for the environment by speaking in
the local community about the plastic in the oceans I'm sticking up for the
environment for example so you're defending or you're protecting that
particular thing you're sticking up for them number 27 is to mess about or to
mess around this means to be silly to not get on with whatever you need to do
children will often mess around and mess about not get on with what they need to
do and be a little bit silly you'll often hear parents say to their children
come on stop messing about get on with your homework or tidy your room number
29 is to hang around to hang around to hang around means to be at a particular
place or location but not be doing very much so you might say oh that boy is
always hanging around by the supermarket I don't know what he's doing there he's
always hanging around there or you might say I'm worried about my daughter
hanging around with those guys it means standing around but not doing very much
number 29 is to tag along to tag along if you tag along with something this
means that you haven't necessarily been invited to a particular group or event
but you go anyway so if you tag along it might mean that your friends have
arranged to go somewhere and you didn't actually intend to go but
later you do and so you tag along it's a last-minute thing sometimes maybe you're
not invited and you go anyway and sometimes it's fine that you're there
but whatever it is you are tagging on meaning that you originally were not
part of that arrangement but you're going anyway
number 30 Wow we are nearly at the end this one is to pick on someone to pick
on someone and this means to bully that person to be unkind to them or to choose
them on purpose in a way that we hope might shame them so teachers can pick on
a student that they think might be a little bit lazy or not paying attention it
can also happen with adults we can say i feel my boss really picks on me he's
given me so much to do I'm sure that none of our lovely love English viewers
would ever do anything like that I'm sure you wouldn't pick on someone it's
not a nice thing to do okay guys we've come to the end 30 phrasal verbs I'm
sure you're going to hear these in daily conversations now so listen out for them
I do have some homework for you as well and we'd like you to try and use one of
those phrasal verbs in a sentence and comment below and I promise I will check
your sentences and check if they are correct thank you so much for watching
everybody and we'll see you very soon on love English bye bye