Phrasal Verbs with OUT

If you ask someone out, you invite them out on a date (with the hope of romance between you.)

· I want to ask her out but I am too shy.

· He asked me out on Friday but I told him I had to wash my hair.

If you cut something out, you no longer do it/ eat it etc.

· My doctor told me to cut out dairy products.

· I cut out going to the gym because I did not have the time and now I am fat.

If you eat out, you go to a restaurant.

· He never cooks and always eats out or has a takeaway.

· For my birthday, I would like to eat out somewhere nice.

If you jump out, you come out quickly and suddenly.

· I was walking quietly down the street when this young man jumped out in front of me.

· Stop the car at the corner and I will jump out.

If you keep someone out, you prevent them from entering.

· There is extra security today to keep the protestors out.

· Please keep out of my office. I need some peace and quiet.

If you leave something out, you do not mention it.

· Did you leave anything out or is that the whole story?

· It is just a summary. I left out a lot of the details.

If something slips out, it escapes quickly and quietly.

· I have slipped out of the meeting for a few minutes but I must get back.

· I did not intend to tell him. It just slipped out.

If you squeeze something out , you get it out using force or pressure.

· I can never squeeze out that last bit of toothpaste from the tube.

· I managed to squeeze out of her that the job was offered to Alain.

If you stay out, you do not come home.

· I stayed out all night and I feel terrible.

· We stayed out celebrating until the early hours.

If you walk out , you leave as a sign of protest.

· When we heard their derisory offer, we walked out of the meeting.

· This presentation is dreadful. I have a good mind to walk out.

PRASAL VERBS => UP

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Phrasal Verbs - “ up”

If you are late, you need to hurry up.

• Please hurry up. We are terribly late.
• We need to hurry up or we will miss our flight.

You can ring up somebody on the telephone.

• I will ring you up when I get back.
• You can ring me up if you need any help.

If you cut your skin, it needs to heal up.

• This will take a week to heal up.
• I cut myself shaving and it will not heal up.

Before I go on a long journey, I have to fill up my car with petrol (or if I were in the US gas.)

• I need to fill up my car.
• The concert filled up quickly and not everybody could get in.

When I send a package, I wrap it up well.

• Could you wrap this up for me?
• They didn’t wrap it up properly and it got damaged.

If you have something valuable, it is a good idea to lock it up.

• He did not lock up his desk properly and somebody stole his calculator.
• I think they should lock up pedophiles for a very long time.

If you don’t have enough money to buy something, you need to save up.

• I am saving up to go on a trip to New York.
• You’ll have to save up if you want to buy a car.

When things are in a mess, you need to tidy them up.

• We need to tidy up the office before the visitor comes.

Tidy up your desk. It’s such a mess.

“Up” - Phrasal Verbs

If you display something such as a poster, you “put it up” on a wall or a notice-board.

Ø Have you seen the warning the boss has put up on the notice-board?

Ø Can you put up a poster in your window?

If somebody is miserable and you want them to be happier, you can tell them to “cheer up”.

Ø You look really unhappy. Cheer up!

Ø I wrote Pearson a letter to try to cheer him up a bit.

If you are sitting and then you rise from your chair, you “stand up”.

Ø When the President arrives, everybody must stand up.

Ø Stand up straight when I am speaking to you.

If a party or a seminar is dull, you need to “liven it up”.

Ø You need to liven up your ideas.

Ø How can we liven up this presentation?

If you want to make something stronger, you can “build it up”.

Ø I have built up a strong team of workers.

Ø I have been ill and need to build up my strength.

I can’t hear very well these days – I’m old. When you speak to me, you need to speaker, to “speak up”.

Ø Can you speak up? There is a lot of background noise.

Ø It is a big room. You will have to speak up so that those in the back can hear.

The place where you lived when you were a child is where you “grew up”.

Ø I was born in Scotland but grew up in England.

Ø Where did you grow up?

If something increases fast, it “shoots up”.

Ø The price of petrol has shot up recently.

phrasal verbs -Eating

If you ‘put away’ food or drink, it can mean you eat or drink a lot of it. (Obviously, it can also mean that you place the food or drink in a fridge or cupboard – the context of the sentence should make clear the meaning.)

- He has put away some sandwiches but is still hungry.

If you consume a lot of drink (usually alcohol) quickly, you ‘knock it back’. This is informal and is often used quite negatively.

- He was knocking back the champagne at the reception.

- We must watch Bill carefully in the bar with the clients. He can really knock it back.

If you eat an excessive amount of food, you ‘pig out’. This is informal.

- I’m not hungry because I pigged out on chocolate this afternoon.

- We really pigged out in the restaurant.