Hi this is Tutor nick p and this is Verb Phrase 261. The
verb phrase today is to catch up and we have eight meanings and eight uses today.
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good time. Okay. Let's get right into it. All right. Here's the first one.
To make an effort to become current in something.
After falling behind. Yeah. This might be something you usually pay attention to,
but for some reason now you've fallen behind. I've been so busy I wasn't able
to watch that show for many months. I need to watch them on
Netflix, so I can catch up. All right. Well, here
it's for entertainment. You're just trying to catch up and see what's
happening in that show. You don't want to miss the
latest shows. Maybe you were busy for the last several months.
Maybe you missed the last five or six episodes. Now you want to
catch up. Okay. Let's continue. Number two. To update each other on the lives of
friends and family. Okay. Good. I haven't seen you for
months. We should have coffee sometime and
catch up. You know, catch up on each other's lives.
I'll tell you what I've been doing, you tell me what you've been doing for
the last several months. So we can catch up. Okay. Number three
here. To be very interested, fascinated or
charmed, especially to the point you are not
paying attention to something. All right. We have a couple
of examples for this one. I was so caught up in my work. I
didn't hear the phone ring. So you could be caught up
in doing something. So all your concentration is on that.
Number two. My son was so caught up in his video game,
he didn't answer me when I called him. So again, he's focusing on his video game
and didn't hear his mother at all. Yeah. So he was caught up, he was involved
in it. All right. Number four. To make up the
difference between oneself and someone else
in a competition. So in a competition means so you're behind. Somebody else is
ahead. Somebody else is winning. All right. So here's the example. We
are losing nine to one. I don't think that we can catch up in a
few innings. So maybe it's like a baseball game. Maybe it's
already like the eighth inning or seventh inning and they're already...
they're losing nine to one. So it's not easy to catch up with that. With that
little amount of time left. Okay. Let's continue.
Number five here. To lift or to raise. Okay. Good. The balloon got caught up
in a gust of wind and blew away. So it got caught up in the wind. It was
raised. It was lifted in the wind. Then it blew away. All right.
Number six. To become involved in something and then
become stuck or trapped in it. So you get caught up in it that way.
You don't want to get caught up in their argument. You know this could be
two of your friends. They're having an argument.
You know, maybe you should stay out of it. Let them argue among themselves.
Stay out of it . If you get caught up on it. Then you got to take sides and
you know, it might be a mess. It's better to just to stay out of it. Let them
handle their own fight. All right. Number seven here.
To find and arrest. Well , this is in regard with the police.
The police caught up and arrested him at a gas station. So they... you know, this was
like almost like chasing and they caught up to him and they got him.
All right. And number eight here. To get the latest information
on a topic or situation. All right. Here's the example.
I need to catch up. Fill me in on what happened at the meeting. Yeah.
So fill you in means you know, fill you in with the information. Tell me the
information. Because I wasn't able to go to the meeting. Did something important happen at the meeting ? Fill me in.
Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. Again
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