to BACK someone UP | to support someone | |
to BACK OUT OF sth | to try avoid doing sth when you've promised to do it. | |
to BACK ON TO | Overlooks it from the back windows | |
to BACK AWAY FROM | to shrink back in fear from | |
to BACK DOWN | to apologise | |
to BE AROUND | to be still in the same place and so be able to be contacted | |
to BE OUT TO | To be aiming very seriously to do sth | |
to BE OVER | To be finished or ended | |
to BE THROUGH WITH | To want no more to do with sth or someone | |
to BE OFF 1 | to leave | |
to BE OFF 2 | to be cancelled | |
to BE OFF 3 | to finish work | |
to BE OFF 4 | to go bad, of meat, butter etc. | |
to BE UP TO STH/no good | to be doing sth mischievous or dishonest | |
to BE BEHIND WITH (one's work) | To have allowed more and more (work) to accumulate | |
to BE IN FOR | to be going to get usually sth unpleasant | |
to BE ON | To take place of concerts etc. | |
to BE OVER AT (a friend's) | to be ona a visit to a friend's house | |
to BE BEHIND it all | To be really responsible for it | |
to BE ON TO someone about sth | To be continually criticising someone about sth | |
to BE WELL UP ON sth | To know a lot about sth | |
to BREAK UP 1 | To begin the school holidays | |
to Break UP A FIGHT | To interrupt and stop it | |
to BREAK UP 2 | To disintegrate | |
to BREAK UP A CAR etc. | To knoc it into pieces | |
to BREAK UP of weather | zerwanie pogody | |
to OUTBREAK | The beginning of sth bad like war, epidemics etc. | |
to BREAK ONESELF OF A HABIT | To force oneself to give it up (habit) | |
to BREAK WITH someone | To stop having anything to do with someone | |
to BREAK WITH TRADITION | To do sth quite different and new | |
to BREAK THE NEWS to someone | To tell someone some bad news as gently as possible | |
to BREAK THE BACK of sth | I've done most of it and all the hardest part | |
to BREAK THROUGH | coś się pojawilo zza czegoś np słońce zza chmur | |
a BREAK-THROUGH | A major discovery in research | |
a LUCKY BREAK | A stroke of luck, generally for a criminal | |
to drive AT BREAKNECK SPEED | To drive dangerously fast | |
to BRING UP CHILD | to teach it manners etc. | |
UPBRINGING | education by the parents | |
to BRING UP A SUBJECT | To start talking about it | |
to BRING UP one's food | To be sick, vomit | |
to BRING STH ABOUT | To cause sth to happen | |
to BRING STH ON | To cause sth to happen precititately, generally used of illnes | |
to BRING SOMEONE ROUND 1 | To invite someone to accompany you on a visit | |
to BRING SOMEONE ROUND 2 | To help someone to recover after he has fainted | |
to BRING SOMEONE ROUND 3 | To persuade someone to accept the rightness of your ideas | |
to BRING SOMEONE THROUGH an illness | To cure someone of an illness | |