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15 PHRASAL VERBS with meanings you can’t guess!
Want tobeef up your English skills? Native English speakers love to talk about food and to use food images to express ideas. This includes using phrasal verbs where the verb is from food, eating, or cooking. But the meaning of the phrasal verb in total often doesn’t have to do with food at all. In this lesson, we’ll look at some of these phrasal verbs, including duck down, clam up, beef up, chew out, swallow up, chicken out, chew over, veg out, boil over, cut up, milk for, fish through, pan out, and more!
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8 COMMENTS
Dear Adam, these idioms are very helpful for me als a foreign learner to understand Americans in daily life. Thanks for your explanations of these special phrasal verbs!
Thank you Adam. I got 8 correct answers.
My question is
No. 2 : Can we use ‘got a cold feet’ instead of chiken
out’?
Hi Love Ocean,
Yes, that’s a good use of the idiom :)
Thank you very much, it was a great lesson.
Adam, thank you very much! It’s very cool and interesting!
Adam, thank you very much!!! It was a great lesson, you are very good!!!
Thanks everyone :)
Very useful, thanks