Phrasal Verb - Put Off

Phrasal verb - Put Off

Definitions:
1) Repel/Repulse from bad manners/behaviour
2) Delay an event

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:

"Tomorrow's quite busy for me, can we put off the meeting until friday?" (2)
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"I was quite attracted to him, but the way he eats his food with his mouth open... urgh! it really puts me off! (1)
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"The smell was so bad in the restaurant that it put me off my food!" (1)
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"We were going to play tennis today but the rain was so bad we decided to put it off until next weekend" (2)

Phrasal verb - put down

Phrasal verb - Put Down

Definitions: 

1) End an animal's life in a humane way

2) make someone feel bad by insulting them

Rules:

Transitive, separable

Examples:

"He always puts me down, and in front of everyone else, I don't know why, he's so nice with everyone else" (2)

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"Our dog got really sick, and he was old so we had to put him down" (1)

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Phrasal Verb - Shoot Down

Phrasal Verb - Shoot Down

Definition:
1) To cause a plane to crash by shooting it
2) Put an end to an idea / Reject something

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:
"The investors shot my business idea down without even thinking about it!"
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"My boss always shoots me down before I get a chance to speak." :(
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"I shoot down any idea that I think won't make our company money"
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"I asked her to go out with me but she shot me down"

Phrasal verb - Blow off

Phrasal verb - Blow off

Definition:
1) Dismiss something or someone, or someone's
2) Release tension (blow off some steam)

Rules:
Transitive, Definition 1 - Separable. Definition 2 - Inseparable

Examples:
"We had a plan to meet today but he just blew me off"
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"I need to blow off some steam"
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"I've pretty much blown off all my classes this week, I just stayed in bed, the classes are boring."

Phrasal verb - Pass on

Phrasal verb - Pass On

Definition:
1) Give something to another person
2) Tell news to someone, spread gossip

Rules:
Transitive, separable

Examples:
"When you're finished reading this book, pass it on! Let someone else read it!" (1)
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"Don't pass it on, it's a secret, but Anna is pregnant!" (2)

Phrasal verb - Stand up

Phrasal verb - Stand up

Definition:
1) Arrange to meet someone, then cancel without telling them.
2) To rise to an upright position on your feet.

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:

"I was standing there for an hour, you didn't tell me anything! I can't believe you stood me up!"
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"I'm sorry for standing you up yesterday!"
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"Ok so we're meeting tonight at 9??"
"Yeah!"
"Ok if you have to cancel, just let me know! Don't stand me up!
"I'm not gonna stand you up! I promise!"

Phrasal verb - be up to

Phrasal verb - Be up to

Definition:
1) To be someone's decision
2) To be someone's responsibility (be down to)

Rules:
Transitive, Inseparable

Examples:

"What do you want to do?"
"I don't mind, it's up to you, you decide!" (1)
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"Coach! We're down by 2 points! there's five minutes left in the game!"
"We can win this game! Come on guys! It's all up/down to you" (2)

Phrasal verb - Beat Up

Phrasal verb - Beat Up

Definition:
1) Hit someone repeatedly to inflict physical damage. (AKA "kick someone's arse/ass"
2) To reproach oneself

Rules:
Transitive, separable

Examples:
"He kissed my girlfriend so I beat him up"(1)
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"Oh I'm such an idiot! I deserve baaaad things to happen to me!"
"Don't beat yourself up about the situation, you didn't do anything wrong!"(2)

Phrasal Verb - Put up

Phrasal Verb - Put up

Definitions:
1) Construct
2) Provide living/sleeping arrangements for someone

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:

"They put up the new office buildings in about 2 months! It was so fast!"
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"My company put me up in a five star hotel! Awesome!"

Phrasal Verb - Patch Up

Phrasal Verb - Patch Up

Definition: Fix

Rules:
transitive, separable

Examples:
"They tried to patch up the road with tape!?"
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"We've had a lot of problems in our relationship recently, but we're trying to patch things up"
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"I put a hole in my jacket!"
"Don't worry, we can patch it up, it's only small"

Phrasal Verb - Go Through

Phrasal Verb - Go through

Definition:

1) To examine carefully

2) To experience

3) To perform/recite/do something in order to remember it in the future

Rules:
Transitive, Inseparable

Examples:

"I went through all the evidence again and again, and I think he's innocent!" (1)

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"The Stark family has been through a lot! Their son is crippled, Rob was killed, let's see what happens in season 2!" (2)

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"We went through an amazing period where we didn't fight, we were so happy, but then we broke up suddenly!" (2)

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"Let's go through the present perfect grammar" (3)

Phrasal Verb - Deal with

Phrasal Verb - Deal with

Definition:
Manage/handle a situation

Rules:
Transitive, inseparable

Examples:

"I couldn't deal with the amount of work i was given, so I quit my job"

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"You're so annoying!"

"Deal with it!"

Phrasal Verb - Come between

Phrasal Verb - Come between

Definition:
Interrupt a process/relationship

Rules:
Transitive, Inseparable

Examples:

The goat came between the two turtles during their 'special time'

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I love you but your work keeps coming between us!

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Nothing will come between us again, I promise!

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My love of ice cream is really coming between me and my fitness goals!

phrasal verb - look into

Phrasal verb - look into

Definition:
Investigate

Rules:
transitive, inseparable

Examples:
The police are looking into the case carefully! We don't want to miss any clues!
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"I'm looking into how I can become a detective!"
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"I think your girlfriend is cheating on you"
"No she isn't, you're crazy!"
"Want me to look into it more?"
"NO!"

Phrasal verb - Take out

Phrasal verb - Take out

Definitions:
1) Withdraw cash from an ATM
2) Go on a date with someone and pay

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:
"I need some cash, come with me, I need to take some money out!"
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"No, no, I'm paying for the dinner, I'm taking you out, remember?!"
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"I wanted to take her out, but she had a boyfriend"

Phrasal Verb - Blow up

Phrasal verb - Blow up

Definition:
Explode

Rules:
Transitive/Intransitive, separable

Examples:
The toaster blew up when he put a knife inside it
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The guy almost blew himself up when he was trying to fix the electricity in his house
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The terrorists blew up a bus of penguins

Phrasal Verb - Pass by

Phrasal verb - Pass by

Definition:
to go or move past

Rules:
Transitive, separable

Examples:
"I was watching tv and suddenly a cat passed by in a box on a skateboard"
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"Do you know that guy? Or is he just someone passing by?"
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"WTF, I was calling your name and you just passed right by me without saying hello!"

Phrasal verb - Keep up

Phrasal verb - Keep * up

Definition:
Continue, maintain something (at the same rate)

Rules:
Transitive, separable

Examples: 
"I learned to speak English really well in England, but since then I just haven't kept it up, so after a while I forgot everything!"
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"You run so fast! I can't keep up with you!"
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"I went out drinking with them, but I couldn't keep up with the amount they drink"
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"You're doing so well at learning phrasal verbs! Keep it up!"

Phrasal verb - Ask out

Phrasal verb - Ask out

Definition:
Invite on a romantic date

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:
"He asked her out, and she said yes!"
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"I'm going to ask her out"
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"I've never been asked out"

Phrasal Verb - Knock Out

Phrasal Verb - Knock Out

Definition:
Render someone unconscious

Rules:
Transitive, Separable

Examples:
Manny Pacqiao Knocked the other guy out!
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The smell was so bad it almost knocked me out!
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Don't worry, during the operation you'll be knocked out, so you won't feel a thing