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30 Cards in this Set
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Call off |
Hủy bỏ Ex: You need to call off the meeting because of the bad weather. |
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Do s.th over |
Làm lại Ex: I have to do my e-mail over because I sent it to the wrong person. |
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Go over |
Brush up on Ex: Go over your receipt to make sure they charged you surely. |
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Turn down |
To refuse Ex: I did not feel okay with the offer, so I turned it down. |
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Work out |
Do exercise Ex: I prefer working out in the afternoon. |
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Go down |
Hạ cánh(máy bay), chìm(thuyền), lặn(mặt trời),đi xuống, To reduce Ex: The company's shares went down 7p to 53p |
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Look into |
Xem xét Ex: He looked into hiring a new secretary, but it would have been too expensive. |
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Break through |
To force yourself through something that is holding you back Ex: You should break through your shyness if you want to improve your speaking. |
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Show up Turn up |
Arrive, appear somewhere Ex1: I invited him for 8 o'clock, but he didn't show up until 9.30 Ex2: She turned up at my house late one night. |
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Do s.th up |
To fasten(shoes,pants..), repair or decorate a building, wrap s.th in paper Ex1: Do your shoes up before leaving the house. Ex2: She always dose her presents up beautifully in gold and silver paper. |
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Do well/badly by s.o |
To treat s.o well or badly Ex: Jack is an *******, he is always doing badly by his wife. |
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Make up |
Trang điểm, bịa đặt Ex1: For the movie, they made him up as an Indian. Ex2: I made up an excuse about having to look after the kids. |
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Come round |
To visit s.o in their home Ex: Please come round and see us some time, you're always welcome. |
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Stick to |
Focus on, concentrate on Ex: Let's stick to the original plan. Ex: He promised to help us and he stuck to his word (he did as he had promised) |
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Level off/out |
To stop increasing or being reduced Ex: The price of gas has finally levelled off after rising for several months Ex: Unemployment rose to 10 percent and then levelled off. |
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Switch off |
Turn off, To stop giving your attention to s.o or s.th Ex: If he gets bored with the lessons, he just switches off and look out the window |
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Look down on s.o Look down your nose at s.o |
If you look down on s.o, you think that you're better than him/her Ex: She thinks that they look down on her because she dosen't have a job |
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Try s.th on |
Thử đồ Ex: Try on the shoe to see if they fit Ex: What a gorgeous dress - why don't you try it on for size. |
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Pass away |
To die Ex: She's terribly upset because her father passed away last week. |
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Stand for |
Represent st, ủng hộ accept a situation or type of behaviour Ex: I wouldn't stand for that sort of behaviour from him, if I were you. Ex: She explained that DIN stands for "do it now". |
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Take turns |
If you take turns, you and other people do the same thing, one after the other. Ex: We agreed to take turns doing the washing up. |
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Put st out |
To make st such as fire or cigarette stop burning. Ex: Firefighters have been called to put out the fire in the city |
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Put someone out |
To annoy or upset s.o, by what you do or say to them. Ex: She was very put out when thay turned up 2h late for dinner. |
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Blow up |
•To explode •To destroy st or kill sb with bomb •To fill st with air Ex: Would you help me blow up these balloons? Ex: They threatened to blow up the plane if their demands were not met. |
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Bump into someone |
To meet someone unexpectedly Ex: We bumped into Amy when we're in town last week. |
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Put off |
• Delay • To make sb dislike st Ex: His attitude put me right off him Ex: The smell of hospitals always puts me off. |
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Go by |
Trôi qua, vụt mất, to move past in space or time Ex: Don't let a good chance go by Ex: You can watch the trains going by from this window |
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Get away with st |
To succeed in avoiding punishment for st Ex: Many factories break the anti-pollution law and get away with it. |
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Show off |
Khoe khoang hay thể hiện bản thân Ex: We all know how wonderful you are. There's no need to show off. |
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Take over |
Ex: Our company has just been taken over by a larger one.
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