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 | |