💬Blow Off
📨Meaning: to decide not to do something you are expected to do, or not to meet someone you are expected to meet.

🍹Examples:
🦋And just what is so exciting you have to blow off both of us to do it?
🦋"Aren’t you going to the meeting?" "No, I’m going to blow it off.
🦋I can't believe she blew me off again.
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💬Wash away

📨1. to remove ( something) by the movement of water.

🦋The bridge was washed away by flooding last year.

📨2 : to get rid of (something, such as unhappy or unpleasant thoughts completely)

🦋Take a vacation to wash away your troubles.

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💬Come down with

📨We can use come down with when you start to feel the symptoms of an illness. Usually, this illness is not that serious. So, for example you can 'come down with a cold', you can ' come down with the flu', you can 'come down with a stomachache', etc.etc.


🦋Alex just called to say that he can't come with us tonight because he has come down with the flu.
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💬Hand around

📨If you hand around things like drinks or cakes, you give one to each person in a group.

🦋Could you hand around the cheese and crackers please?

🦋He didn't hand the chocolates around, He just sat and ate them himself!

⚈Note: In the U.K. "hand round" is also used.
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💬Get together

📨To meet each other, having planned it before.

🦋Every Saturday night we get together with some friends and have dinner in a restaurant.
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💬force into

📨to make someone do something they don't want to do.


🦋When I was a kid I was forced into taking piano lessons.
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💬Cut it out

📨 Stop doing something

🦋Cut it out, you two_ I'm tired of listening to you argue.

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 💬Crack someone up

📨To make someone laugh a lot.

🦋Little kids just crack me up with the things they say.

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💬Get away

📨to leave a place

🦋We left the pub to get away from the noise.

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💬Bring forward

📨to change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier than originally planned.

🦋I've brought forward the meeting to this week.

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💬keep in

📨to make someone stay in a place like a school or a hospital.

🦋Teachers kept naughty kids in after school to punish them.
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💬owe to

📨If you owe something to someone, you feel that you only have it because of the person's help or support.

🦋In his acceptance speech, Tiger said he owed everything to his parents.
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💬1)Pay off

📨 If something you have done' pays off' It is successful and brings you good result.

🦋Studying English every day really paid off in my exam.

2)Pay off

📨To pay all of a debt or bill in full.💳💵

🦋We paid off our mortgage after fifteen years.💵
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💬Put off & Bring forward

📨When you put something off you postpone something or you postpone doing something.

🦋I had to put off the meeting until next week. ( I had to postpone the meeting until next week)

🦋Don't put off going to see the doctor. Do it now, Don't put it off!

📨Bring something forward is the opposite, bring forward is you advance it, so it happens sooner.

🦋The date has been brought forward from June to April.

🦋Could we bring forward our meeting by an hour? (could we do it an hour earlier?)

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💬End up

📨Meaning: to find yourself in a place or situation that you did not plan, intend or expact to be in.

🦋If Mike keeps taking drugs, he'll end up in jail or dead.

🦋If you don't study hard, you could end up doing a job you don't like much .
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💬Laze around

📨To " laze around" means to enjoy relaxing and not doing any work.In the UK, you might also hear someone say ' laze about'.

🦋Lazy days are the best!! I've been " lazing around" all day today.
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🎲 Quiz 'Phrasal Verb Test'
Choose the appropriate missing preposition. #PhrasalVerb #Vocabulary @sirjimmy
🖊 10 questions · ⏱ 30 sec

5 Effective Phrasal Verbs For You

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1. Win out - To be victorious
e.g., Love always wins out over hate.

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2. Bounce back - to recover from a negative without seemingly any damage.
e.g., Nancy bounced back easily from her financial problem.

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3. Pull through - to become well again after a serious illness.
e.g., His injuries are severe but he's expected to pull through.

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4. Knock out - to defeat a competitor.
e.g., Ireland had been knocked out of the World Cup.

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5. Ride out - To tackle a difficult problem and survive.
e.g., The new government will ride out the present financial crisis.

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