+- Accountancy Forum (https://www.accountancy.com.pk/forum)
+-- Forum: General (https://www.accountancy.com.pk/forum/forum-general)
+--- Forum: General Discussion (https://www.accountancy.com.pk/forum/forum-general-discussion)
+--- Thread: Learn English - See Daily a New Topic (/thread-learn-english-see-daily-a-new-topic)
- shsaeed - 10-27-2007
Blow (6)
Blow away
- Kill
- Beat rivals or competitors by a large margin
- Impress greatly
- When the wind moves something from a place
Blow down
- When the wind forces something to fall
Blow off
- Not keep an appointment
- Ignore, not do something
Blow out
- Extinguish candles, matches, etc.
Blow over
- When a scandal gets forgotten
Blow up
- Explode
Blurt (1)
Blurt out
- Say something quickly without thinking, especially if you shouldn't
Bog (4)
Bog down
- Slow make progress
Bog in
- Eat enthusiastically
Bog into
- Eat something enthusiastically
Bog off!
- Get lost
Boil (4)
Boil down
- Simplify, reduce to the essentials
Boil down to
- Amount to
Boil over
- When a hot liquid spills out of a container
- When people lose their tempers and things get nasty
Boil up
- Feel a negative emotion strongly
- Cook or heat something to boiling point
Bone (1)
Bone up on
- Study hard
- shsaeed - 10-28-2007
Book (3)
Book in
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
Book into
- Make a reservation in advance
- Check in at a hotel
Book up
- Reserve
Boot (1)
Boot up
- Start a computer
Border (1)
Border on
- Be located next to a place
- Be very nearly something
Boss (2)
Boss about
- Use excessive authority to control people
Boss around
- Use excessive authority to control people
Botch (1)
Botch up
- Ruin or spoil something
Bottle (3)
Bottle away
- Store up
Bottle out
- Lack courage to do something
Bottle up
- Not express your feelings
- shsaeed - 10-31-2007
Bottom (1)
Bottom out
- Pass the lowest point and start rising
Bounce (3)
Bounce into
- Force someone
Bounce back
- Recover
Bounce off
- Test ideas
Bowl (1)
Bowl over
- Surprise someone greatly
Box (2)
Box in
- Prevent something from moving, especially vehicles
Box up
- Pack things in boxes to move them
Branch (1)
Branch out
- Move into a different area of business, etc.
Break (7)
Break away
- Leave an organisation, usually to form a new one
Break down
- End negotiations unsuccessfully
- Start crying
- Stop working
Break in
- Go into a building to steal something
- Interrupt something
- Train a horse to be ridden
Break off
- Break a piece from something
- End a relationship
Break out of
- Escape
Break through
- Pass a barrier or obstacle
Break up
- Break into many pieces
- Close an educational institution for the holidays
- Finish a relationship
- shsaeed - 10-31-2007
Breeze (4)
Breeze along
- Move easily and quickly
Breeze in
- Enter a place quickly
Breeze into
- Enter a place quickly
Breeze through
- Pass easily, succeed
Bring (13)
Bring about
- Make something happen
Bring along
- Bring someone or something to certain place
- Help someone improve
Bring around
- Persuade or convince someone
- Bring something with you when you visit
- Get someone talking about something
Bring back
- Cause someone to remember
- Return
Bring down
- Make a government fall
- Make something cheaper
Bring forth
- Produce something, make it known or visible
- Produce
- Make something happen
- Remove something from where it is kept or hidden
Bring forward
- Make something happen earlier than originally planned
Bring in
- Earn
Bring on
- Cause something to happen or speed up the process
Bring out
- Release or publish
Bring out in
- Cause a health problem or reaction
Bring round
- Make someone wake up from unconsciousness or an anaesthetic
Bring up
- Mention
- Raise a child
- shsaeed - 11-02-2007
Brush (2)
Brush off
- Ignore, pay little attention
Brush up
- Improve a skill quickly
Bubble (1)
Bubble over
- Become very excited
Bucket (1)
Bucket down
- Rain heavily
Budge (1)
Budge up
- Move to make space for someone
Buff (2)
Buff up
- Clear, clean or make something shine
- Improve
Buff up on
- Improve your knowledge quickly
Bug (2)
Bug off!
- Go away
Bug out
- Open your eyes wide in surprise
- Leave somewhere in a hurry
Build (1)
Build up
- Develop a company
- Increase
- shsaeed - 11-04-2007
Bulk (1)
Bulk out
- Make something bigger or thicker
Bump (3)
Bump into
- Meet by chance
Bump off
- Kill
Bump up
- Increase
Bundle (3)
Bundle off
- Send someone somewhere
Bundle out
- Expel
Bundle up
- Put on warm clothing
- Wrap or tie things together
Bunk (1)
Bunk off
- Not go to school when you should
Buoy (1)
Buoy up
- Make someone feel more positive
Burn (3)
Burn down
- Burn completely
Burn off
- Remove by burning or similar process
Burn out
- Lose enthusiasm and energy to continue in a demanding job
- shsaeed - 11-05-2007
Burst (1)
Burst into
- Catch fire very quickly
- Laugh, cry or clap loudly
Butt (1)
Butt in
- Interrupt
Butter (1)
Butter up
- Praise or flatter someone excessively
Buy (5)
Buy in
- Force a CD or record into the charts by buying lots of copies
Buy into
- Accept an idea
Buy off
- Pay someone to stop them causing trouble
Buy out
- Buy somebody's share in a company
Buy up
- Buy all of something
Buzz (3)
Buzz around
- Move quickly around a place
Buzz off
- Leave somewhere
Buzz off!
- Go away (imperative)
- shsaeed - 11-07-2007
Call (8)
Call after
- Name someone after somebody else
Call back
- Return a phonecall
Call for
- Demand
- Go to collect something
- Telephone for something
- Go and collect someone to take them out
- Require
Call forth
- Make something happen
Call in
- Get someone to come and do a job
- Stop and visit
Call off
- Cancel
- Order someone to stop attacking
Call on
- Ask for help
- Visit
- Challenge
- Ask someone to do something, especially to speak in public. (Formal)
Call up
- Summon someone for military service
- Telephone
Calm (1)
Calm down
- Stop being angry or emotionally excited
Cancel (1)
Cancel out
- Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning
Care (1)
Care for
- Like
Carried (1)
Carried away
- Get so emotional that you lose control
- shsaeed - 11-07-2007
Carry (7)
Carry forward
- Include a figure in a later calculation
- Make something progress
Carry off
- Win, succeed
- Die of a disease
Carry on
- Continue
Carry on with
- Have an affair
Carry out
- Perform a task
- Food bought from a restaurant to take away
Carry over
- Continue past a certain point
Carry through
- Complete successfully
Cart (1)
Cart off
- Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison
- Take something away, especially if stealing or without permission
Cash (4)
Cash in
- Convert shares, bonds, casino chips, etc, into money
Cash in on
- Benefit or make money on something, especially if done unfairly
Cash out
- Illegally access a bank account or credit card and steal money
Cash up
- Count all the money taken in a shop or business at the end of the day
- shsaeed - 11-08-2007
Catch (6)
Catch at
- Take or grab hold of something
Catch on
- Become popular
- Finally understand what is going on
Catch out
- Trick
- Discover or prove that someone is lying
- Put someone in an unexpected and difficult situation (often passive)
Catch up
- Get work, etc, up to date.
- Reach someone who was ahead of you
Catch up on
- Do something that should have been done earlier
Catch up with
- Do something that should have been done earlier
- Meet someone after a period of time and find out what they have been doing
- When something negative starts to have an effect
- Punish someone after they have been doing something wrong for a long time
- Learn something new that many people already understand
Cater (2)
Cater for
- To provide what is necessary
Cater to
- To provide what is needed, often seen negatively
Cave (1)
Cave in
- Collapse
- Stop resisting or refusing
Chalk (3)
Chalk out
- To cut a line of cocaine
Chalk up
- To achieve something good
Chalk up to
- Explain the reason for a problem
- shsaeed - 11-09-2007
Chance (1)
Chance upon
- Find something by accident
Change (1)
Change over
- Change a system
Charge (2)
Charge up
- Put electricity into a battery
Charge with
- Accuse somebody of a crime
Chase (3)
Chase down
- Try hard to find or get something
Chase off
- Force a person to leave or go away
Chase up
- Ensure that someone remembers to do something
- Try to get someone to pay a bill, debt, etc
- Try to get more information about the progress of something
Chat (1)
Chat up
- Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you
Cheat (2)
Cheat on
- Be sexually unfaithful
Cheat out of
- Get money from someone under false pretences
Check (7)
Check by
- Visit a place to check something
Check in
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check into
- Register on arriving at a hotel or at the airport
Check off
- Mark something on a list as done
Check out
- Pay the bill when leaving a hotel
- Die
Check out of
- Settle up and pay before leaving a hotel
Check over
- Check something very carefully
- shsaeed - 11-10-2007
Cheer (2)
Cheer on
- Encourage
Cheer up
- Be less unhappy
Chew (4)
Chew on
- Thinks about something carefully before deciding
Chew out
- Criticize someone angrily
Chew over
- Think about an issue
Chew up
- Cut into small pieces with your teeth
- Damage something inside a machine
Chicken (1)
Chicken out
- Be too afraid to do something
Chill (1)
Chill out
- Relax
Chime (1)
Chime in
- Contribute to a discussion
Chip (2)
Chip away at
- Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc
Chip in
- Contribute some money
- Contribute to a discussion
Choose (1)
Choose up
- Form groups or teams
- Form groups or teams
- shsaeed - 11-13-2007
Chop (2)
Chop down
- Fell or cut down a tree
Chop up
- Cut into small pieces
Chuck (4)
Chuck away
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
Chuck in
- Quit something
- Make a comment
Chuck out
- Dispose of something you no longer need or want
Chuck up
- Vomit, be sick
- Quit something
Churn (1)
Churn out
- Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality
Clag (1)
Clag up
- Make something sticky
Clam (1)
Clam up
- Be quiet, refuse to speak
Clamp (1)
Clamp down on
- Restrict or try to stop something
- shsaeed - 11-14-2007
Claw (1)
Claw back
- Get money back
- Retake possession with difficulty
Clean (2)
Clean out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things.
- Cause someone to spend all their money
Clean up
- Tidy and clean
Clear (4)
Clear away
- Leave a place
- Remove or tidy
Clear off
- Leave somewhere quickly
Clear out
- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff.
- Leave somewhere
Clear up
- Cure or recover from an infection
- Tidy up
- Explain
- Improve (weather)
Click (1)
Click through
- Open an advertisement on the Internet
- shsaeed - 11-16-2007
Climb (1)
Climb down
- Accept that you are wrong and change your position
Clog (1)
Clog up
- Block, slow movement right down
Close (8)
Close down
- Close a shop, branch or business permanently
- Stop an opponent being a challenge
Close in
- Surround, envelop
- Approach, get near
Close in on
- Get near someone
Close in upon
- Get near someone
Close off
- Block a place to stop people entering
Close on
- Get nearer
Close out
- Bring something to an end
- Close or stop using
- Ignore, exclude
Close up
- Completely close something
- Join together
- Move closer together