| 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 |
