RECENT PHRASAL VERBS REVIEW PART I
When Alan got to work he discovered that Demetrius had _________🔑 him to the office. Tringlefold, the boss, came and told Alan that Prendergast had ________ 🔑unexpectedly. He took the opportunity to __________ Alan _____ 🔑 in front of his colleagues. Prendergast asked Alan if he minded him _________🔑 without making an appointment. Alan lied that he didn’t mind and also that he would ________🔑 with a proposal for his insurance needs. Then he realised that he could use this opportunity to __________🔑 more about Demetrius.
When Alan got to work he discovered that Demetrius had _________🔑 him to the office. Tringlefold, the boss, came and told Alan that Prendergast had ________ 🔑unexpectedly. He took the opportunity to __________ Alan _____ 🔑 in front of his colleagues. Prendergast asked Alan if he minded him _________🔑 without making an appointment. Alan lied that he didn’t mind and also that he would ________🔑 with a proposal for his insurance needs. Then he realised that he could use this opportunity to __________🔑 more about Demetrius.
RECENT PHRASAL VERBS REVIEW PART II
1. Parents get embarrassed when naughty children _________ them _____ in shops. 🔑
2. I’ll think of something; give me a few minutes to ______ a solution. 🔑
3. Police may never _______ who the murderer was. 🔑
4. If you’re ever in the area, feel free to _________ any time. 🔑
5. You’ll never believe who _________ at my door last night! 🔑
6. There was only one seat free and another passenger _________me _______it. 🔑
1. Parents get embarrassed when naughty children _________ them _____ in shops. 🔑
2. I’ll think of something; give me a few minutes to ______ a solution. 🔑
3. Police may never _______ who the murderer was. 🔑
4. If you’re ever in the area, feel free to _________ any time. 🔑
5. You’ll never believe who _________ at my door last night! 🔑
6. There was only one seat free and another passenger _________me _______it. 🔑
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER
🔹 better to arrive late than not to come at all
📌 Well, better late than never, but where on earth have our colleagues been all this time?
📌 However, better late than never and it is a very good thing indeed that this is being undertaken.
📌 I know the many difficulties there are, but it is better late than never, so do it now.
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🔹 better to arrive late than not to come at all
📌 Well, better late than never, but where on earth have our colleagues been all this time?
📌 However, better late than never and it is a very good thing indeed that this is being undertaken.
📌 I know the many difficulties there are, but it is better late than never, so do it now.
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CUT THROUGH 🔙 🔝
🔹- reduce, take a short cut
📌 Alan left work feeling quite pleased with himself. It was a warm, late summer early evening. Alan had noticed that recently, the normally locked cemetery gates were open and this could give him a short cut home. If I cut through the cemetery, I could be home in twenty minutes, he thought. He decided to cut through. He trusted his sense of direction and cut through one of the many paths. In fact, there seemed to be many more paths than he’d remembered. After fifteen minutes, the path he’d chosen came to a dead end. He decided to cut through another instead.
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🔹- reduce, take a short cut
📌 Alan left work feeling quite pleased with himself. It was a warm, late summer early evening. Alan had noticed that recently, the normally locked cemetery gates were open and this could give him a short cut home. If I cut through the cemetery, I could be home in twenty minutes, he thought. He decided to cut through. He trusted his sense of direction and cut through one of the many paths. In fact, there seemed to be many more paths than he’d remembered. After fifteen minutes, the path he’d chosen came to a dead end. He decided to cut through another instead.
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FINISH UP / START OFF
🔹 - end / begin 🔙 🔝
📌 The second choice wasn’t any more successful than the first so he cut through yet another path. The trees shaded the paths and everything was overgrown. After an hour of going round in circles he finished up where he’d started off. 'Damn! He thought, I’ll have to cut through and leave the way I came, but when he tried that, he finished up where the second path had started off. He was well and truly lost and the sun was beginning to set. Would he ever find his way out?
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🔹 - end / begin 🔙 🔝
📌 The second choice wasn’t any more successful than the first so he cut through yet another path. The trees shaded the paths and everything was overgrown. After an hour of going round in circles he finished up where he’d started off. 'Damn! He thought, I’ll have to cut through and leave the way I came, but when he tried that, he finished up where the second path had started off. He was well and truly lost and the sun was beginning to set. Would he ever find his way out?
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TO SEE THE LIGHT
🔹to finally realize something after serious consideration
📌I thought he would never agree with me, but eventually he saw the light.
📌After my terrible grade in mathematics I saw the light and started working harder.
📌 Finally, near the end of the meeting, John saw the light and withdrew his objections.
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🔹to finally realize something after serious consideration
📌I thought he would never agree with me, but eventually he saw the light.
📌After my terrible grade in mathematics I saw the light and started working harder.
📌 Finally, near the end of the meeting, John saw the light and withdrew his objections.
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TO KNOCK OUT SB/ TO BE KNOKCED OUT/ COME TO 🔙 🔝
🔹 - become unconscious/conscious
📌 Alan decided he needed to get a move on or he’d be there all night. He started running. It didn’t really matter in which direction, he thought, because eventually, he would reach a wall and then find the entrance from there. He ran faster and faster and faster still until, like a hand grabbing his ankle, he tripped over a tree root and went flying, head first into a tree. He was knocked out and lay on the empty path bleeding. He couldn’t say when he came to but it was almost dark.
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🔹 - become unconscious/conscious
📌 Alan decided he needed to get a move on or he’d be there all night. He started running. It didn’t really matter in which direction, he thought, because eventually, he would reach a wall and then find the entrance from there. He ran faster and faster and faster still until, like a hand grabbing his ankle, he tripped over a tree root and went flying, head first into a tree. He was knocked out and lay on the empty path bleeding. He couldn’t say when he came to but it was almost dark.
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SCARE OFF
🔹- to frighten 🔙 🔝
📌 Slowly, and still feeling a bit dizzy, he pulled himself up and tried to get out of the path but it was difficult. Then, what luck! He saw two women walking by. He called out, ‘Help!’
They turned in the direction of the noise, caught sight of Alan’s bloody face, let out an almighty scream and ran for their lives! He must have scared them off .
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🔹- to frighten 🔙 🔝
📌 Slowly, and still feeling a bit dizzy, he pulled himself up and tried to get out of the path but it was difficult. Then, what luck! He saw two women walking by. He called out, ‘Help!’
They turned in the direction of the noise, caught sight of Alan’s bloody face, let out an almighty scream and ran for their lives! He must have scared them off .
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TO KNOW THE ROPES
🔹to understand how things are done in a particular place
📌 To succeed in a new job, ask someone who really knows the ropes to train you.
📌 The moment she got to know the ropes, there was no stopping her.
📍 To show someone the ropes means 'to show someone how things are done'
[A reference to old-fashioned sailing ships, which had complicated ropes and riggings]
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🔹to understand how things are done in a particular place
📌 To succeed in a new job, ask someone who really knows the ropes to train you.
📌 The moment she got to know the ropes, there was no stopping her.
📍 To show someone the ropes means 'to show someone how things are done'
[A reference to old-fashioned sailing ships, which had complicated ropes and riggings]
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RUN AWAY
🔹- leave hurriedly, escape 🔙 🔝
📌 Don’t ask how because Alan can’t remember but somehow he managed to get out of the path and out of the cemetery but his problems didn’t stop there. It seemed he’d started a new trend because every time somebody saw him, they ran away. An old lady walked passed him and started running away. A small child started crying and his mother picked him up and ran down the street. Pretty much everyone he’d seen on his way home had run away from him. Did he really look so bad?
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🔹- leave hurriedly, escape 🔙 🔝
📌 Don’t ask how because Alan can’t remember but somehow he managed to get out of the path and out of the cemetery but his problems didn’t stop there. It seemed he’d started a new trend because every time somebody saw him, they ran away. An old lady walked passed him and started running away. A small child started crying and his mother picked him up and ran down the street. Pretty much everyone he’d seen on his way home had run away from him. Did he really look so bad?
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TO LEAVE NO STONE UNTURNED
🔹 to look everywhere; to attempt everything
📌 We left no stone unturned in our search for the city's best hot dog.
📌 If a solution can be found, Mr Danby, I shall leave no stone unturned until I have found it.
📌 But knowing him and his dedication, he will leave no stone unturned in his recovery
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🔹 to look everywhere; to attempt everything
📌 We left no stone unturned in our search for the city's best hot dog.
📌 If a solution can be found, Mr Danby, I shall leave no stone unturned until I have found it.
📌 But knowing him and his dedication, he will leave no stone unturned in his recovery
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TAKEN ABACK
🔹- be very surprised 🔙 🔝
📌 It was with great relief that he got back to his apartment block. He went in through the main door and waited for the lift. It came down from the higher floor and as the doors opened, the woman inside screamed but then stopped and said,
‘Alan?’
‘Yes.’ said Alan totally taken aback. ‘Oh my God!’ cried the woman, ‘you look like something out of a zombie film - what on earth’s happened?’
‘Well, to cut a long story short, said Alan, I fell badly.’
‘You really are accident prone. You scared me half to death; I was completely taken aback’, said the woman. But she wasn’t as taken aback as Alan who wondered what possible reason there could be for Amanda being in his block.
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🔹- be very surprised 🔙 🔝
📌 It was with great relief that he got back to his apartment block. He went in through the main door and waited for the lift. It came down from the higher floor and as the doors opened, the woman inside screamed but then stopped and said,
‘Alan?’
‘Yes.’ said Alan totally taken aback. ‘Oh my God!’ cried the woman, ‘you look like something out of a zombie film - what on earth’s happened?’
‘Well, to cut a long story short, said Alan, I fell badly.’
‘You really are accident prone. You scared me half to death; I was completely taken aback’, said the woman. But she wasn’t as taken aback as Alan who wondered what possible reason there could be for Amanda being in his block.
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RECENT PHRASAL VERBS REVIEW PART I
Alan left work feeling cheerful and decided to __________🔑 the cemetery but after an hour he __________🔑 where he’d ___________🔑. He started running, tripped up, fell and was _____________🔑. When he ________🔑 it was almost dark. He called to some people to help him out but he __________ them ____🔑. On his way home, people kept ___________🔑 from him. When he got back to his apartment block, he was __________🔑 to meet Amanda.
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Alan left work feeling cheerful and decided to __________🔑 the cemetery but after an hour he __________🔑 where he’d ___________🔑. He started running, tripped up, fell and was _____________🔑. When he ________🔑 it was almost dark. He called to some people to help him out but he __________ them ____🔑. On his way home, people kept ___________🔑 from him. When he got back to his apartment block, he was __________🔑 to meet Amanda.
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tap on 🔑 to jump to the answerRECENT PHRASAL VERBS REVIEW PART II
1. Farmers sometimes use scarecrows to __________🔑 the birds.
2. If you have a bike, it’s easy to ___________🔑 a traffic jam.
3. When he told me he was moving to New Zealand, I was totally ______🔑.
4. Young lovers used to __________🔑 from home to get married in Scotland.
5. A man was hit by a tree in a storm and ___________🔑.
6. He finally ___________🔑 in hospital.
1. Farmers sometimes use scarecrows to __________🔑 the birds.
2. If you have a bike, it’s easy to ___________🔑 a traffic jam.
3. When he told me he was moving to New Zealand, I was totally ______🔑.
4. Young lovers used to __________🔑 from home to get married in Scotland.
5. A man was hit by a tree in a storm and ___________🔑.
6. He finally ___________🔑 in hospital.
CLEAN UP 🔙 🔝
🔹- to clean, remove dirt
📌 ‘What a state!’ said Amanda, ‘we’re going to have to get you cleaned up ; we’d better go to your apartment.’
They went up in the lift, entered the apartment and went into the bathroom.
‘Now, sit down on the edge of the bath and we’ll get you cleaned up ,’ instructed Amanda, who then asked, ‘where do you keep your first aid kit?’
Alan looked embarrassed.
‘Well, I’ve got a couple of plasters in the bathroom cabinet but that’s about all.’ He replied sheepishly.
Amanda looked at him admonishingly.
‘OK, disinfectant then, please don’t tell me you don’t have any or you’ll never clean up that cut.’
‘Yes, there’s some next to the toilet.’
Amanda filled the sink with hot water, poured a few drops of disinfectant into it and took some cotton wool from her handbag.
‘Now’, she said, almost sadistically, ‘this is going to sting!’
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🔹- to clean, remove dirt
📌 ‘What a state!’ said Amanda, ‘we’re going to have to get you cleaned up ; we’d better go to your apartment.’
They went up in the lift, entered the apartment and went into the bathroom.
‘Now, sit down on the edge of the bath and we’ll get you cleaned up ,’ instructed Amanda, who then asked, ‘where do you keep your first aid kit?’
Alan looked embarrassed.
‘Well, I’ve got a couple of plasters in the bathroom cabinet but that’s about all.’ He replied sheepishly.
Amanda looked at him admonishingly.
‘OK, disinfectant then, please don’t tell me you don’t have any or you’ll never clean up that cut.’
‘Yes, there’s some next to the toilet.’
Amanda filled the sink with hot water, poured a few drops of disinfectant into it and took some cotton wool from her handbag.
‘Now’, she said, almost sadistically, ‘this is going to sting!’
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