Add up | Make sense | |
Ask after | Enquire about someone's health or how life's going | |
Back down | Yield, give up, surrender | |
bargain for | Expect something to happen | |
Bear out | Confirm that something is true or correct | |
Break down | Lose control to the emotions, start crying, stop working | |
Break off | Break a piece of something, stop talking suddenly | |
Bring about | Cause something to happen | |
Bring/pull off | Achieve something, manage to succeed with something diffcult | |
Bring on | Make something appear, Cause something to happen | |
Bring round | Persuade or convince someone | |
Bring up | Mention something, discuss | |
Carry off | Win, succeed Die of a disease | |
Carry out | Perform a task | |
Catch on | Become popular, understand something | |
Come about | Happen unexpectedly | |
Come down to | Amount to, be the most important aspect | |
Come in for | Receive a praise or criticism | |
Come off | Be successful or when something breaks off | |
Come up | Appear = happen (something unexpected) | |
Crop up | Happen (something unexpected) = Come up | |
Do up | Close or fasten clothes, Repair and renovate | |
Draw up | Prepare a contract, When a vehicle stops | |
Drop in | Visit without having made arrangements | |
Fall about | Show amusement - laughing a lot | |
Fall for | Let someone deceive you, believe in a lie | |
Fall through | Be unsuccessful - the plan or project - to fail | |
Feel up to | Feel capable of doing something | |
Get across | Communicate successfully, explain something | |
Get down to | Start working seriously | |
Get off with | Escape or avoid punishment | |
Get on for | Be near a time | |
Break up | Come to an end | |
Come up against | Meet a difficulty | |
Come up to | Equal - especially expectations, standard | |
Come up with | Think of - especially an answer, plan or idea | |
Count on | Rely on | |
Do away with | To abolish or murder | |
End up | Finish in a certain way or place | |
Face up | Have a courage to deal with - epecially responsibilities | |
Fall back on | To use as a last resort | |
Fall for | Be deceived by | |
Fall out with | Quarrel with someone | |
Follow up | Act upon suggestion | |
Get at | Imply - about personal matters | |
Get someone down | Make to feel depressed | |
Get on | Make progress - especially in life | |
Get over | Be shocked or surprised that something if real or true | |
Get over with | Come to an end of something, usually unpleasant | |
Get round to | Find time to do - also around | |
Get up to | Do something wrong or naughty - usually bad when about children | |