#english_language 


## Fun facts
Most phrasal verbs have Anglo-Saxon etymology.

When the object of a transitive phrasal verb is a personal pronoun, it always comes before the particle:
I'll pick you up (not I'll pick up you)

## Phrasal verbs by particles/meaning
### Up
- prop up
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### Time
- break things up
- time's getting on
- spin out
- fritter time away

### Cause and effect
- rebound on

### Memory
- eat away at

### Making progress
- wind up
- peter out
- press on
- whittle away

### Conflict and violence
- fly at
- round on
- bust-up
- bump off

### Sound
- belt out
- grate on
- peal out

### Views and opinions
- cave in
- defer to
- egg on
- swear by
- buoy up

### Agreeing
- hammer out
- talk round

### Understanding and having ideas
- cotton on
- rought out
- leap out at
- thrash out

### Arranging things
- see about
- fix up

### Size and number
- tail off
- level off

### Success and failure
- get by

### Discussing problems
- botch up
- resign oneself to
- grasp at

### Deciding and influencing
- mule over
- size up
- toss for smth
- drum up

### Exclamations and warnings
- roll on (friday)
- dream on

### Work
- farm out
- see smth through
- bog down
- slog away
- pack smth in
- cobble smth together
- coast along

### Study
- cream off
- scrape through

### Lectures and seminars
- round off

### Essays
- cater to
- detract from

### Business
- set smb up
- firm up sth
- turn over sth
- turn out sth

### Money
- cough up
- square up
- come into
- plough back

### At home
- chuck away
- straighten up
- lock up
- plump up
- done out (done up)

### Clothing and appearance
- getup
- let a clothing out
- smooth smth down
- cast-off
- flung off

### Character and personal qualities
- to get on
- to have one down as

### Feelings
- summon up
- to choke back

### Social life
- get-together
- shoot off

### Health and symptoms
- break out in
- bunged-up
- drop off
- nod off
- do sb in

### The body
- tense up
- thaw out
- double up / over

### How people speak
- hold forth

### How people move
- steal away
- squash up

### Nature
- go out / come in (move further away from the beach / nearer the beach - about tides)
- go in (become hiddne by a cloud)
- overcast (grey about the sky)

### Weather
- to beat down (abotu rain/the sun)
- pelt down (also about rain)

### Places
- steep in
- encroach on
- set back (a little distance from)
- set off (made to look even more attractive)
- soak up (enjoy an experience)
- bursting with
- back onto

### Transport
- to pull out (drove onto a road where the traffic is moving faster)
- change down (put a vehicle into a lower gear)
- flag down (made to stop by waving at the driver)
- to block someone (put a car so close to another vehicle that it cannot drive away)
- to stack up (about planes - flying over an airport at different heights waiting to be told they can land)
- revving up 

### The news
- confide in
- people in the know
- to ferret out
- to call smb up (to draft into the army)

### Secrets and lies
- to level with (tell the truth abotu smth)
- paper over (hide a difficulty to try to make people)

### Technology
- to seize up (about printers (?) stop moving or working in the normal way)

### Food and drink
- gobble food down
- wolf food down
- eat in (eat at home)
- fry-up
- to wash down (help swallow smth)
- drink to sb/sth (similar to raise one's glass to smb)

### Get
- get up to mischief

### Keep
- keep in with sb
- flag down

### Take
- take-off
- take up sth
- fog up
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