Give away | Betray, disclose, reveal |
Give off | Emit pollution or something else unpleasant |
Give out | Stop working, through age or overuse, be exausted |
Give over | Stop doing something bad or annoying |
Go back on | Break a promise |
Go in for | Enter a competition or sit an exam, take a challange or make a habit of |
Go off | Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm), go bad or decay |
Go round | Be or have enough of something |
Go through with | Do or complete something you've agreed to |
Grow on | Become gradually more evident |
Hang onto | To keep something |
Have it in for | Bear a grudge against somebody |
Have it out with | Discuss or argue an issue to improve a situation |
Have someone on | Know something about someone that could harm them, Tease, deceive |
Hit it off | Have a good relationship from the first time you meet a person |
Hit upon/on | Have an idea |
Hold out | Offer something with hope, Resist |
Hold up | Delay when travelling, something that slows you down or makes you late |
Hold with | Accept (usually negative), agree with an idea |
Lay down | Establish rules or procedures; Kill, murder |
Let off | Not punish |
Let on | Tell a secret |
Live up to | Meet expectations or standards |
Look on | Consider or perceive as |
Look someone up | To pay a visit after a long time |
Make for | Produce a result or situation, result in |
Make off with | Steal, run away with |
Make out | Pretend, to kiss or cuddle |
Make someone out | Understand someone's nature or personality |
Miss out | To leave out or omit, fail to include, lose a chance |
Own up | Confess |
Pack in | Stop doing something (used as an imperative) |
Pick up | Improve, Collect an item or person |
Pin someone down | Force to give a clear statement |
Play up | Behave badly |
Pull off | Manage to do something difficult or tricky, succeed |
Put across | Communicate, convey a message |
Put down to | Explain the cause of something |
Put in for | Make a request or apply |
Put someone up | Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days. |
Put off | Postpone, Discourage, upset |
Put up with | Tolerate, bear |
Give up | To surrender |
Go on | Happen - usually negative |
Keep up | Continue |
Let down | Disappoint, break a promise |
Let in on | Allow to be a part of a secret |
Live it down | Suffer of loss of reputation |
Look into | investigate |
Make up for | Compensate for |
Pay Back | Take revange |
Point out | Draw attention to a fact |
Push on | Continue with some effort |
Put oneself out | take trouble - to help someone |