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Axe to grind. It's a hidden reason for wanting something or for not liking someone or something. Here's another example. Don't listen to Claudia, when she tells you how bad that teacher is. She has had an axe to grind since he failed her last year. In other words, he gave her a bad grade and probably because she deserved it. But now she's a little angry. Here's another one. Why do you keep telling me not to buy anything from that store? Do you really think they sell bad products? Or do you just have some kind of axe to grind? So maybe somebody had a bad experience somewhere and they don't recommend shopping in that store? any longer. back to square one. It means return to the beginning, right? The editor didn't like the article I wrote for the newspaper, she told me to redo it. So I guess I'll have to go back to square one. In other words, right back to the beginning. Hey, the builders constructed a building that didn't meet the city's requirements. Now they'll have to tear it down and begin building again, they're back to square one. So in other words, they have to start over. a synonym to that would be start from scratch. Back to the drawing board, it means to return to the planning stage of a project. Here's an example. Our plan to raise money for a new swimming pool didn't work. Now we're back to the drawing board in trying to think of a better plan. So we have to start over, don't we? The idea of buying computers for the public schools through the lottery failed, the city leaders had to go back to the drawing board to think of another way to come up with the money. Hey, you could compare that to the idiom back to square one. That expression originates from the idea that plans and designs are developed on a drawing board. Here's another to have ones back to the wall to be in a difficult or desperate situation. Here's an example. Here. He lost his job over a month ago and he's spent all his savings paying his bills. Now he doesn't have any more money and his back is to the wall. In other words, he doesn't have other choices that he knows about. Here's another example. My back was to the wall. It seemed like my only choices were to try and save the company with my personal savings or pull out and let the company go while I still had some money left. Hey, you could compare back to the wall with in a bind in a fix in a jam behind the eight ball. Here's another idiom backhanded compliment. It's a criticism that is phrased in such a way that it appears to be a compliment.  Here's an example Listen carefully. Patricia said she can't wear fake gold jewelry the way I can because it turns her skin green. And I think she was giving me a backhanded compliment. She was really letting everyone know that she wears real gold jewelry while the jewelry I have one is fake was not a very nice compliment is it? Here's another example. Paul is not a very nice person. He's always giving people backhanded compliments that sound like he's being nice when he's really just insulting them.

The term backhanded combines the meaning of back meaning insincere or malicious and hand meaning to give. Here's one I really like backseat driver, a person who gives driving orders when he or she is not the driver. Here's an example. Why must you tell me every time you see a red light ahead? I'm the one who's driving stop being a backseat driver. Here's another example. Andy's mother always made him nervous when he drove her to the store. She would tell him where to turn how fast to drive and where to park, she was a backseat driver. a side note to backseat driver is when cars were first developed in the 1920s. Wealthy car owners would often ride in the back seats, telling the drivers where to go, where

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Phrasal verbs hey did you know that we use phrasal verbs every day of the week in spoken English? We use phrasal verbs to communicate and very often they mean one thing two things three things it might be that of a certain phrasal verb only means one thing sometimes phrasal verbs are idiomatic it means that when we use a phrasal verb it means something different than what we can physically see. Sometimes they are literal. And as a literal phrasal verb, we probably can see it. Today I want to talk about just a few phrasal verbs that are very interesting, very common in the English language. The first one is, comma. And I like that one. Usually, I put an interjection in there, I'll say, Oh, come on. Now, what does that mean? Probably means that you're teasing something like that. And what you're doing is maybe funny or cute. So we use it that way. Oh, come on. We also use come on when we want to say Hurry up. Come on literally means in that case, hurry up, go faster, or let's go somewhere. An example might be Come on Hey, we're waiting for you. And the show starts in three minutes. To follow Come on, means to follow. So you tell somebody Hey, let's go to the shop. Let's go to the cinema. Let's go out for dinner. Follow me or come on something like that. And the last way we use it commonly is when someone might be flirting. to flirt means the same as somebody was coming on to me ladies use this a lot. If they're in a situation where a man is attracted to her and says something nice. Let's go out for a date. Can I buy you a drink? Something like that? Oh, come on. Yeah, he's coming on to me. What about the phrasal verb come in? Remember that most phrasal verbs are created with a verb and a preposition. However, there are other ways we do create phrasal verbs come in. It can mean to receive or acquire something it means that someone is coming into our business someone has joined us something like that. We can also use it a literally, we might say hey, don't just stand outside Come on in. So sometimes I put the word on in between that hey, come on. And it's a nice way of saying something inviting somebody what about the phrasal verb? Go down to go down a well might mean that someone did not accept something. Yeah. Hey, that didn't go down very well did it. That idea? It can also be used literally. When you tell somebody Hey, let's go down town. Let's go down to a certain place. Hey, let's go down to the cinema. Sometimes we say let's go downtown. Let's go up chown I hope you enjoyed today's lesson.

Phrasal verbs, here are a few more phrasal verbs that are used very commonly every day. How about the phrasal verb of make up? Make up. Makeup is a noun my wife put her makeup on, that would be a noun and makeup to make up is to do something, in this case to make up your face to put her makeup to put someone's makeup on means to put makeup on her face. We also use the phrasal verb makeup to repay or reduce something. Hey, yesterday, I am sorry, I wasn't able to make our lunch engagement. I'd like to make up for that by buying you lunch today. So that would be another way to use the phrasal verb make up? What about to create a story? Maybe something that you said somebody said in it's not true. They made it up. Hey, did you hear what he said yesterday? I know it's not true. He made that up. Another way we use a phrasal verb make up is when we want to add to something. Somebody might say, hey, let me make up the difference. somebody buys something and they don't have enough money. Okay, I need five more dollars. Okay, here I'll make up the difference. I will give you the $5. The phrasal verb take over is used a couple different ways to take over means to take charge. Here is the new owner of our company. They have just taken over management he has she has they have taken over management of the company. It might be for a manager who simply takes charge of something, hey, you're going to take over that division. Now you're going to be the new director of that division for our company. Come out. Come out is another phrasal verb to become. Come out can mean the same thing as to churn out Hey, how did that project turn out? How did it come out? Anyway, we can ask about a result in that I here's an example for come out. It's the result of something. Hey, I'm baking my very first cake. I'll just have to wait and see how it comes out from the oven. It'll be just 20 minutes. Hey, hope you enjoyed today's lesson.

Phrasal verbs, three things you should know about phrasal verbs. First they can be literal it means you can actually see what happens when you use a phrasal verb. They can be idiomatic which means that in implies, your phrasal verb implies something you probably can't see, but it has a different definition. And number three is that many phrasal verbs are separable, it means you can actually put other words between the words and it means the same thing. However, many of the phrasal verbs that we use every day are not separable. It simply means that two or three must be put together in order to form the phrasal verb. Go out, go out. So what does the phrasal verb go out mean? Well, it can mean to try out for something. This is usually all about sports. Hey, I'm going to try out for the basketball team. I'm going to try out for the baseball team. Another way we might use go out is about fashion. We used to wear a lot of tie dye shirts, but they've gone out of fashion that would have happened during the 70s maybe 60s and 70s was a fashion trend. But since then they have gone out of fashion. Go out to go out and have dinner maybe a movie with your sweetheart or sweetheart to be point out to select or indicate someone or something from a group. Hey, all those people over there. I've never met those people over there before except one. You see that guy in the red shirt? Well, I know him a group in this case. Now. If you said to someone, hey, I'd like to point out this fact. That's another way we use it every single day. How about the phrasal verb, find out find out can mean to discover. A we need to find out that information we need to learn something or investigate we need to find out to discover facts about someone or something. An example might be one of the best ways to learn is to find out how other people do things. That's pretty simple, right? So it's a very simple way of using the term find out normally it means to discover research, find out information about something. Here's another one. It's the phrasal verb come up. something might happen unexpectedly. In this case, come up. Hey, what happened yesterday? Why did you leave the party so early? Well, something came up. I had to leave because something happened at work. I had to talk to my boss, something like that. Here's an example. I planned on visiting you last night but something came up and I was unable to visit. I hope you enjoyed this lesson on phrasal verbs.

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Phrasal verbs Hey today we're going to talk about three phrasal verbs pick up, go back, come back. Remember that phrasal verbs can be either idiomatic or literal, idiomatic something that we think happened or a statement someone makes, you probably can't see it happening. literal, you probably can see it happening. Often phrasal verbs take on one or the other, or both. It's best to Learn phrasal verbs one at a time, learn how they're used. And just learn the basics. This is a great way to Learn phrasal verbs, just learn to simple phrasal verbs, here comes three of them. Number one, pick up, pick up can mean to clean, well, let's pick up the room. Let's pick up the trash on the floor, the ground, whatever. So in this case to pick up I can see it happening right pick that up to pick. So pick up literal. The other one might be something like, pick up. Another one is all about knowledge when we learn something, maybe it's a language. Hey, I picked that language up very fast. In other words, I learned and don't forget, usually phrasal verbs can be defined by one word. In other words, pick up means to clean pick up can mean learn or knowledge, something like that. Here's an example of how we might use pick up if it's about knowledge. Hey, it took me three months to learn to play that song. But my brother pick it up in two days. That's pretty simple stuff, isn't it? So I can do that also, with a verb or another word to learn, for instance, is to pick up Hey, I picked it up or I learned either one. How about the phrasal verb Go back. Go back. Well, one way is to return to someplace you've already been. Hey, I have to go back home now. It's five o'clock and it's time to eat dinner. Something like that. What about to break a promise? Hey, you went back on your promise. The first one to go back means to return right? And the second one is go back. To go back on a promise means you reneged In other words, I decided not to do what I said I would do. Here's an example with go back about our promise. Hey, my friend really hurt my feelings when he went back on his promise and told everyone my secret. What about the phrasal verb come back? Well come back to have something returned to your original or how it started. For instance, hey, my dog ran away three weeks ago. But today, my dog came back Can you imagine? So something went somewhere or something disappeared for whatever reason, and now it came back. An example might be I'll wait until you come back and then we can do it together. The other way to use the phrasal verb comeback is when two teams are playing. And one has a deficit and one is losing. But somehow they managed to win the game. Hey, that team came back. They really did a great job. They played hard they got lucky something like that, and they won the game. Another way that we can use the phrasal verb comeback is about success. What about a movie actor or actress? By the way, actor is okay for both men and women. If we said something like hey, she made a great comeback. Maybe it's an actress she's stopped acting for some years and decided to make another movie and did very well. Hey, she made a great comeback. These three examples pick up go back come back are three more great phrasal verb examples. I hope you enjoy today's lesson.

Phrasal verbs, there are so many phrasal verbs in the English language we certainly can't count them. One of the most important things about phrasal verbs that we must remember is that they come in two very distinct forms literal and idiomatic, literal. If you can see it happening, probably literal. If you can't see it happening, it's probably idiomatic. In other words, it has a different meaning. If I said to you right now, hey, go on, and you understand me to say something like walk, hey, walk that way, or go on? Well, that means to do something, right. And I can physically see myself walking. So that's probably going to be literal. Hey, go on. Today, we're going to start with that very phrasal verb go on. It really means to continue. It could mean to walk somewhere. But in this case, if someone says to you, hey, Guan, let's say you're talking to someone you're explaining, describing telling someone a story, maybe how your day went something like that. And they say, Oh, go on. In other words, continue. You can also take on other meanings. Somebody says something to you, that's not easy to believe. Maybe you know, it's not true. And the first thing you say is, Hey, stop saying those things go on, it really means that you don't believe something. Here are a couple examples. I wish class would finish but my professors lecture just keeps going on and on and on. So in this case, it means something is continuing happening for a long time. That's a very good start for phrasal verbs for today's lesson. Here's another one carry out. This is often used to perform a task. In other words, I need you to do something for me maybe at work, hey, I need you to carry out that project, I need you to do something for me. It might be used for an assignment, something like that, to carry out that assignment, again as a task or an assignment. Those are phrasal examples. In other words, I can't actually see you doing something when I use the term carry out, but carry out also has a literal definition. Here's an example. Grandma, let me help you carry out the boxes to the car to carry something in your hands right to the car wherever. Again, this is going to be a literal definition. What about the phrasal verb set up? set up can be used a number of ways to establish someone as something in other words, let me help you do something to help establish, in this case to set up a business something like that. Here we're going to set up a business. An example might be my father gave me some money to help me set up my new business to start right to start my new business.

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