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Come up with
'Come up with' means to think of or suggest an idea, plan, explanation, or solution. It also means to succeed in finding, providing, or producing something that is needed, such as money, supplies, or equipment.
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Come down with
Come down with means begin to be ill or begin showing signs of an illness, usually a relatively minor one.
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Come across
Come across expresses three everyday meanings depending on grammar: an unplanned discovery of an item or person, the impression someone gives to other people, or an idea being successfully noticed and understood.
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Chip away
Chip away literally describes breaking off tiny pieces from a hard surface with repeated small strikes. In everyday figurative use, chip away at describes making steady progress against a large task or slowly diminishing a quantity, feeling, or barrier through small efforts over time. It shows that the target is diminishing, but it does not claim that the work is finished.
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Catch up
Catch up describes closing a distance or gap. It means reaching someone ahead of you, reaching an expected level of skill or progress, completing tasks you missed, or sharing recent personal news with someone after time apart.
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Call off
Call off means decide that a planned event will not happen, stop an activity that is already underway, or command an aggressive animal or person to stop attacking.
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Burn out
Burn out means to reach deep physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion from prolonged work, to stop burning naturally because combustible fuel is depleted, or to fail mechanically from internal electrical heat damage.
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Bump into
Bump into means to meet someone unexpectedly without prior arrangement, or to hit an object or person accidentally with your body.
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Video · 7 min Bring up
Bring up has three distinct meanings in everyday English. First, it means to introduce a topic or start discussing an issue in conversation. Second, it means to care for, feed, and educate a child until adulthood. Third, in technology contexts, it means to make a document, image, or website appear on a screen.
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Bring about
Bring about means to cause something to happen, particularly a change, improvement, reform, or problem.
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Video · 8 min Break up
Break up expresses four main ideas in modern English. First, it describes romantic partners ending a relationship. Second, it describes people in a gathering dispersing or an organizer ending an event. Third, it means dividing something larger into smaller pieces or groups. Fourth, it describes an unstable voice or video signal that cuts out during a conversation.
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Blow away
'Blow away' most commonly means to impress, delight, or astonish someone intensely. It can also describe moving air carrying an object away physically, or one competitor defeating another with total ease.
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Back up
The phrasal verb back up carries five primary meanings in everyday English: supporting someone who needs help, providing evidence that reinforces a statement, creating a duplicate copy of data, moving in reverse, and accumulating in a queue when forward movement is blocked.
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Back down
Back down means to stop demanding something, stop defending an argument, or withdraw a claim after opposition. It requires an earlier disagreement where at least one person insisted on their view.
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Add up
Add up has three distinct meanings in everyday English. First, it describes calculating a total by putting separate figures together. Second, it describes small amounts, delays, or charges accumulating over time into a large sum. Third, it describes whether an explanation, figure, or set of facts appears logical and consistent. When you name the resulting total, use add up to directly before the amount.
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28 Phrasal Verbs With Take
The verb take combines with particles and prepositions to form expressions for physical movement, time, tasks, and emotional reactions. The words following take determine the direction, target, and overall meaning.
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A wardrobe clear-out
In this clear-out, the speakers sort clothes into things to keep, repair, donate, or recycle. Listen for the condition of each item and the decision made about it. A local collection service may have its own rules about what it accepts.
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Video · 9 min Unusual names
An unfamiliar name is simply a name that a listener has not heard often, not an incorrect or strange name. A speaker may ask listeners to use their full given name and teach the correct pronunciation, or they may choose an informal short form for specific social settings. Using a shorter name does not mean the speaker dislikes their full name.
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