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These pages will give you a lot of useful information about how phrasal verbs behave. They will also show you how important phrasal verbs are in all types of English, and how much they contribute to the formation of new vocabulary. We hope that reading these articles will show you some new aspects of phrasal verbs, and will give you confidence ...
If you bump up against a problem, you experience or encounter something that slows down your progress, as in ‘The business was coming along quite nicely until we bumped up against an unexpected cash flow problem’. The phrasal verb come up against can be used with the same meaning. Article. British English. Professional Development.
Phrasal verbs are verb phrases that have idiomatic meanings—that is, their meaning is not obvious from the individual words that make up the phrase. Phrasal Verbs.
The verb to hack basically means to cut something in a rough way, with a lot of energy or many times. It can also mean to cough loudly. There are also several examples of hack as a phrasal verb. If something is hacked about (normally used in the passive), a lot of changes are made to it in a rough or careless way, as in ‘The old door had been ...
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Your English: Phrasal verbs: hang (1) When it comes to phrasal verbs, we hang on Tim Bowen’s every word! The phrase hang on is commonly used in telephone conversations to mean wait a moment but the phrasal verb hang on can also be used to mean to be patient, as in ‘I think we should hang on and see the end of the game’. If a sports team ...
To brush up means to practise and improve your skills in or knowledge of something, as in ’He’s off to Berlin for a month to brush up his German’. If you brush past someone, you pass them quickly making slight contact with them as you do so, as in ’She grabbed her bag and brushed past me before running out into the street’. Brush ...
