back sb up | support sb morrally | |
back out of sth | try to avoid doing sth when you promised to do it | |
back on to | overlooks it from the back windows | |
back away from | shrink back in fear from | |
back down | apologise | |
be around | be still in the same place and be able to be contacted | |
be out to | be aiming very seriously to do sth | |
be through with | want no more to do with sth or sb | |
be off | leave be cancelled finish work go bad of meat butter | |
be up to sth/no good | be doing sth mischievous or dishonest | |
be behind with (one's work) | allowed more and more work to accumulate | |
be in for | be going to get sth unpleasant | |
be on | take place of concerts exhibitions etc | |
be over at (a friend's house) | be on a visit to a friend's house | |
be behind it all | be really responsible for it | |
be on to sb about sth | be continually criticising sb about sth | |
be well up on sth | know a lot about sth | |
break up | begin school holiday a fight-interrupt and stop it disintegrate a car-knock it into pieces of weathe | |
the outbreak | beginning of sth bad like wars epidemics | |
break oneself of a habit | force oneself to give it up | |
break with sb | stop having anything to do with sb | |
break with tradition | do sth quite different or new | |
break the news to sb | tell sb some bad news as gently as possible | |
break the back of sth | have done most of it and all the hardest part | |
break through | appeared through the clouds - sun | |
a break-through | major discovery in research etc | |
a lucky break | stroke of luck generally for a criminal | |
drive at breakneck speed | drive dangerously fast | |
bring up a child | teach it manners, speech ect | |
upbringing | education by parents | |
bring up a subject | raise it start talking about it | |
bring up sb's food | be sick vomit | |
bring sth about | cause sth to happen | |
bring sth on | cause sth to happen generally used of illnesses | |
bring sb round | invite sb to accompany you on a visit, help sb recover consciousness after fainting | |
bring sb round to one's way of thinking | persuade sb to accept the rightness of yr ideas | |
bring sb through an illness | cure sb of an illness | |