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 |