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Flashcards by Elena Ricoberta, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elena Ricoberta
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Add up | Make sense |
| Ask after | Inquire about |
| Back down | Yield in an argument |
| Bargain for | Take into account |
| Bear out | Confirm the truth |
| Break down | Lose control of the emotions |
| Break off | Stop talking |
| Break up | Come to an end |
| Bring about | Cause to happen |
| Bring off | Succeed in doing something |
| Bring on | Cause the onset of an illness Cause trouble to happen to oneself |
| Bring round | Influence someone to your point of view |
| Bring up | Mention |
| Call up | Mobilise for military service |
| Carry off | Complete successfully, perhaps despite a problem |
| Carry out | Complete a plan |
| Catch on | Become popular (colloquial) |
| Come about | Happen |
| Come down to | Be in the end a matter of |
| Come in for | Receive, especially criticism, blame |
| Come off | Take place successfully |
| Come out | Appear |
| Come up | Occur, usually a problem |
| Come up against | Meet a difficulty |
| Come up to | Equal- especially expectations, standard |
| Come up with | Think of- especially an answer, a plan, a solution |
| Count on | Rely on |
| Crop up | Happen unexpectedly- colloquial |
| Do away with | abolish-colloquial |
| Do up | Decorate, colloquial |
| Draw up | Come to a stop |
| Draw up | Organize, especially a document |
| Drop in | Pay a visit- colloquial |
| Drop off | Fall asleep |
| End up | Finish in a certain way or place |
| Face up to | Have courage to deal with (especially responsibilities) |
| Fall about | Show amusement- especially laughing |
| Fall back on | Use as a last resort |
| Fall for | Be deceived by- colloquial |
| Fall out with | querrel with |
| Fall through | Fail to come to completition |
| Feel up to | Feel capable of doing |
| Follow up | Act upon a suggestion |
| Get across | Be understood, especially get an idea across |
| Get at | Imply, about personal matters- colloquial |
| Get down to | Begin to seriously deal with |
| Get off with | Avoid punishment |
| Get on for | Approach a certain time/age/number |
| Get on | Make progress, especially in life |
| Get over | Be surprised |
| Get over with | Come to the end of something, usually unpleasant |
| Get round to | Find time to do |
| Get up to | do something, usually bad when about children- colloquial |
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