The Top 20 English Phrasal Verbs

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Let's start out with some simple

everyday English phrasal verbs

that you can start using in your everyday life.

You can kind of picture how you'll use these phrasal verbs

and you'll probably even hear them today.

When you arrive somewhere and you are being greeted

by whoever owns the house

or whoever's business it is

and they see you at the door they say come on in

or they'll say go on in go on in go on in go on in the door

or go on in the kitchen

or go on into the store whatever it is.

So this is just a friendly invitation to come inside.

If you meet your friend outside their house

and they say go on in the doors unlocked

this is a really common phrasal verb use here.

Or if you arrive and someone else

you were expecting to see is outside they might say

oh go on in your friend is waiting for you

go on in they're waiting for you.

These are two really common uses with this phrasal verb.

Another phrasal verb that you probably will start hearing

as soon as I teach it to you is go right back.

Go right back.

I'm going right back to sleep.

So there are three main uses that we use this phrasal verb before.

We say go right back to bed, go right back to work

and go right back to sleep.

Go right back to bed and go right back to sleep

are commonly used just to say to go back to sleep

or go back to lay in bed even though you just woke up.

If you see someone and it's really early in the morning

they say what are you doing?

And you're saying I'm sorry I woke up early

you can go right back to bed or you can go right back to sleep.

They're just telling you like you could do right now

you don't have to be awake just because I'm awake.

Or sometimes if you take a break and you feel like

it wasn't a long break you say I took a 15 minute break

and I had to go right back to work.

Go right back to work.

This meaning immediately like there wasn't much of a break

just that quick 15 minutes.

I wasn't taking a long time to relax or whatever it might be.

It was a quick break and I had to go right back to work.

Sometimes if you want to say that things have changed a lot

and there was maybe a transition or you know

something strange happened and awesome.

It was like things immediately are normal again.

You can say things had gone right back to normal.

Let's go right back to normal.

This means let's go back to the way that things were

immediately.

When we use this word right in the phrasal verb go right back.

It means immediately.

Also one way that I use this phrasal verb all the time

is if I forget something and I have to go home to get it

because I can't do whatever it is without this thing.

Let's say I'm going to the store to buy some groceries

and I forgot my debit card or my credit card.

I have no way to pay for the groceries.

I'll say I drove to the grocery store but I had to go

right back home to get my credit card.

This means I immediately had to go back and it's like

I forgot this so I had to do this right away.

An interesting phrasal verb that has a few different uses

that we use every day is to leave out or leave something out.

Don't leave anything out.

So we can say leave something out or we're talking about

we forgot something we forgot to include a detail

or we forgot to tell someone something

or if we are just intentionally excluding a detail

for a certain reason which I'll explain more.

Or if you just leave something physically visible

we say we left it out.

A lot of times when teenagers are just trying to

mislead their parents they might leave out some

details about their plans intentionally.

For instance maybe they say hey we're going to hang out

at our friend's house and the parents say oh okay that's fine.

They left out the detail that their friend's parents are not home

is a common thing with teenagers they want to be left alone

but they don't want their parents to know

because maybe they're not supposed to be at someone's house

without their parents.

So they intentionally left out a detail

because if they say hey we're going to our friend's house

but their parents aren't home their parents would say

you guys can't go over there you know there's no adults.

So they're intentionally leaving out a detail

they're leaving out something.

Maybe you're getting together with a group of old friends

and you forget to add one of your old friends

to the group text message and you text them later and say

I'm so sorry I didn't mean to leave you out of the message

I just forgot I just mistyped whatever it was.

So again leave out can be intentionally forgetting something

or intentionally not putting a detail in or saying something to a person.

And then the last way that we use this phrase

every day this phrasal verb is when you leave out something out of a closet

or cabinet or for instance the refrigerator

it's so annoying if you leave out something overnight

that was supposed to be refrigerated

because usually it's spoiled or it's run and shouldn't be

for instance milk or dairy if you leave it out too long

out of the refrigerator you can't eat it because it's spoiled.

This phrasal verb is interesting because it has a literal meaning

to drive out of town and drive us out of this poisonous town.

Maybe you literally drive out of a city by a car

or if you're saying that we drove someone out of town

it means this person was so disliked by everyone

that everyone was so mean to them or like physically

aggressive that they had to leave town or leave the area

so it's used in both ways literally like oh we just drove out of town

for the weekend like we went to a different city

or we're going to drive them out of town because

they're being you know racist or whatever it might be

it means that we dislike this person so much we don't want them to live where we live

or we don't want them being in our city.

A lot of times I hear in sports especially soccer around the world

like a coach or a player is so bad or does something you know

so bad for the team that they get driven out of town or driven out of the

country whatever it is because people dislike them so much

and they take the sport so seriously.

So now that we've talked about these simple action phrases that you can use on

an everyday basis let's move on to some phrases that you'll hear

people use on again that everyday basis to talk about managing their lives.

Sometimes native speakers instead of saying we're becoming more strict

we use this phrase we say we're going to put our foot down.

I'm putting my foot down.

A lot of times we use this phrase if we're trying to reduce

behavior or reduce waste or something I'm putting my foot down there's no

more wasting food in this house.

So this might just you know indicate to everyone in your family like

you have to eat all your food don't take food out if you're going to waste it.

Native speakers use this phrase to put their foot down if they are firmly

enforcing a situation.

So the opposite of putting your foot down is being a pushover meaning like

you said this is the rule this is how I'm going to enforce this

and someone breaks the rule and you just let them do it.

So you're either a pushover or you're putting your foot down and

remaining strict on your boundaries or your rules.

Another thing that we say if we're trying to reduce the amount of

things that are being like wasted or reduce a behavior

or whatever it might be we say we're going to dial back.

Dial back Annie.

Maybe you're dialing back your expectations.

Maybe you had really strong expectations or really high expectations

about a new employee at your work but you know they start in the first few

weeks they're not really understanding the processes they're not getting

much work done so you might say I have to dial back my expectations

meaning I have to reduce my expectations for this person because clearly

your expectations were too high and now you're being disappointed.

Another really common way I can think of this

phrasal verb being used is if someone is being really sarcastic and you're

trying to tell them you know it's being it's being rude you know people

aren't really enjoying it you might say you kind of need to dial back your

sarcasm because it's offending people

so in this case you want them to reduce or use less sarcasm.

Dial back another phrasal verb that you'll hear in the modern world

especially a work or a tech is to opt in.

For those who opt in who choose to be in our community and not the individual.

If you opt into something it means you choose to participate

voluntarily so a lot of times if you get a new bank account or credit card

it will ask you if you want to opt in to paperless

statements and what this means is you are saying yes

you can just you know keep the statements on the computer you don't have to

physically mail me a piece of paper with all my

banking information each month you're opting in you're saying yes this is okay

a lot of times when you sign up for things it will ask you if you want to opt

in to receive emails from that person or from that business

so you're just agreeing again you're taking the option you're volunteering

here but we just say I'm opting in to opt in

the really useful phrasal verb especially when you're dealing with things

online or just in any technical situation

now we're getting into the more advanced part of the lesson these phrases

are going to help you discuss problems or ideas

and they're more just thinking phrasal verbs let's get started with this part

talk through something talk through our options

this phrase just means that you're going to discuss something step by step

a lot of times if people are confused or they don't understand how to do

something they might say can you talk me through this

or you could say I'm going to talk you through this this means I'm going to

very slowly explain it to you I'm going to be really patient with you in my

explanation as well if you want to make sure that an event or a plan is going to

you might say let's talk through the plan before it happens this just means

you're going to go through it step by step in all of the details as well

another phrase that's really good for talking about processes or strategies

is go about or to go about doing something

it just is talking about starting something in your strategy or your plan or

how you're going to do it in a certain way so you might ask someone how are

you going to go about starting a business it seems like a hard thing to

start a business so you're kind of asking them for their plan or their

strategies if you're unsure about how you're going to do

something or how you're going to plan to do something you might say I'm not

sure how I'm going to go about this so this phrasal verb it's kind of funky to

use for the first few times but it will start becoming natural as you

use it more and more here's a slightly more advanced english phrasal verb

but it's really useful and native speakers love to use it because it's very

specific and precise so if you want to say that you're going to

carefully figure out you know the main idea or uncover some sort of detail

you can say I'm going to tease out the main idea or I'm going to tease out more

details this means you know you're trying to either ask someone a lot of

questions to come up with these things or you're kind of thinking through

again a plan with all of the details and all of the different aspects to

try to figure out either the main idea let's tease out the main idea

or let's tease out the details that we need to figure out here

now i'm going to take you through two english phrasal verbs

that can help you describe how situations develop over time

if you hear a native english speaker say how did it go down

how's it going down there they're not necessarily talking about how

something just decreased or went down in direction usually when native

english speakers say how did it go down

or it went down like this they're talking about how it happened

they're asking how did it happen so a lot of times you know if someone's

describing this crazy story maybe there was a fight or something just wild

happened you could say I can't believe it went down like that

that means I can't believe it happened like that so this is a phrasal verb but

it's almost like slaying as well it can also just be used really casually

oh went one down at the meeting today i missed it

what happened at the meeting today because i wasn't there

another phrase that's pretty similar to this one except

you know something just kind of happens gradually is how did it play out

play it out

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really play it out when we say that something plays out

it means it develops or happens over time so usually slowly over time

if you are not sure how a plan is going to go

you might say we'll just see how it plays out this just means we'll see how it

happens if it goes well or if it does not go well

now these next phrases are extremely emotional they're really useful for

a relationship or they're common in just real conversations

the first phrase is split up split up split up so when two people split up

they either break up from a relationship or you can say they split up they got

divorced you can also use this just to mean divide in a casual way like

let's split up you go that way i'll go this way and you know it's

using different ways but if you want to say that two people got divorced

or broke up out of relationship usually romantically is when we use this

phrase over you say what they split up they split up last year

i split up with my husband last year no i didn't but that's just an

example phrase in an end of relationship sometimes

people emotionally disconnect they don't care about the relationship

anymore and this next phrasal verb could be used you can say they

checked out so to check out emotionally you can be talking about a

relationship like the husband was checked out emotionally so they split up

meaning they got divorced it means they just don't care anymore you know they're so

mentally disengaged that we say it's like their brain has checked out of the

relationship we can also just use this if we're you know having a really hard

mental day maybe you could say i was so checked out at work today i didn't

get enough sleep last night and i've just been so busy it just means you're not

super engaged emotionally and just not thinking about what you're doing

or if you want to say you can tell that someone else doesn't care or you know

they're just too busy or they're tired you could say they were so checked out today

this next phrase if you're protecting someone or making an excuse for them you can say you're

going to cover for someone cover for someone thanks for covering this one is extremely

common to use in english if you cover for someone you make an excuse for them so for instance if

you cover for your co-worker your boss may say hey has anyone seen Lisa and you know that Lisa

left a little bit early to go to doctor's appointment but you want your boss to not be able to

know you might say oh you know what she actually had to go downstairs to make some copies but she'll

be back in just a few minutes you want me to go talk to her so you're kind of covering for her

or maybe some of the mistakes and you take the blame you're covering for them you're making an

excuse or you're protecting them you might ask someone hey can you cover for me like i got to take

a long lunch will you just let them know you know i'm around or whatever it might be you're kind

of asking them to lie or protect you in a way now our last phrase is going to be used in a literal

sense and an emotional sense you've probably heard this one hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang

on hang on if you ask someone for something or you ask them for help and they need you to wait

really briefly for just a minute they may say hang on let me go get that for you or hang on

i'll figure out the answer this just means wait briefly if you want to tell someone don't give up

you can say hang on hang on please like don't give up so literally you could say like oh just hang

on you can do it a lot of times people will also say hang in there hang in there that means don't

give up emotionally or don't let yourself get too discouraged things will get better just hang on

and things will get better so now i've given you some really simple english phrasal verbs to

add to your everyday language and some really advanced ones as well you've done a great job in

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