The Top 20 English Phrasal Verbs

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1:01everyday English phrasal verbs that you can start using in your everyday life. You can kind of picture how you'll use these phrasal verbs and you'll probably even hear them today. When you arrive somewhere and you are being greeted by whoever owns the house or whoever's business it is and they see you at the door they say come on in or they'll say go on in go on in go on in go on in the door or go on in the kitchen or go on into the store whatever it is. So this is just a friendly invitation to come inside. If you meet your friend outside their house and they say go on in the doors unlocked this is a really common phrasal verb use here. Or if you arrive and someone else you were expecting to see is outside they might say oh go on in your friend is waiting for you go on in they're waiting for you. These are two really common uses with this phrasal verb. Another phrasal verb that you probably will start hearing as soon as I teach it to you is go right back. Go right back. I'm going right back to sleep.

2:01So there are three main uses that we use this phrasal verb before. We say go right back to bed, go right back to work and go right back to sleep. Go right back to bed and go right back to sleep are commonly used just to say to go back to sleep or go back to lay in bed even though you just woke up. If you see someone and it's really early in the morning they say what are you doing? And you're saying I'm sorry I woke up early you can go right back to bed or you can go right back to sleep. They're just telling you like you could do right now you don't have to be awake just because I'm awake. Or sometimes if you take a break and you feel like it wasn't a long break you say I took a 15 minute break and I had to go right back to work. Go right back to work. This meaning immediately like there wasn't much of a break just that quick 15 minutes. I wasn't taking a long time to relax or whatever it might be. It was a quick break and I had to go right back to work. Sometimes if you want to say that things have changed a lot and there was maybe a transition or you know

3:03something strange happened and awesome. It was like things immediately are normal again. You can say things had gone right back to normal. Let's go right back to normal. This means let's go back to the way that things were immediately. When we use this word right in the phrasal verb go right back. It means immediately. Also one way that I use this phrasal verb all the time is if I forget something and I have to go home to get it because I can't do whatever it is without this thing. Let's say I'm going to the store to buy some groceries and I forgot my debit card or my credit card. I have no way to pay for the groceries. I'll say I drove to the grocery store but I had to go right back home to get my credit card. This means I immediately had to go back and it's like I forgot this so I had to do this right away. An interesting phrasal verb that has a few different uses that we use every day is to leave out or leave something out. Don't leave anything out.

4:04So we can say leave something out or we're talking about we forgot something we forgot to include a detail or we forgot to tell someone something or if we are just intentionally excluding a detail for a certain reason which I'll explain more. Or if you just leave something physically visible we say we left it out. A lot of times when teenagers are just trying to mislead their parents they might leave out some details about their plans intentionally. For instance maybe they say hey we're going to hang out at our friend's house and the parents say oh okay that's fine. They left out the detail that their friend's parents are not home is a common thing with teenagers they want to be left alone but they don't want their parents to know because maybe they're not supposed to be at someone's house without their parents. So they intentionally left out a detail because if they say hey we're going to our friend's house but their parents aren't home their parents would say you guys can't go over there you know there's no adults.

5:06So they're intentionally leaving out a detail they're leaving out something. Maybe you're getting together with a group of old friends and you forget to add one of your old friends to the group text message and you text them later and say I'm so sorry I didn't mean to leave you out of the message I just forgot I just mistyped whatever it was. So again leave out can be intentionally forgetting something or intentionally not putting a detail in or saying something to a person. And then the last way that we use this phrase every day this phrasal verb is when you leave out something out of a closet or cabinet or for instance the refrigerator it's so annoying if you leave out something overnight that was supposed to be refrigerated because usually it's spoiled or it's run and shouldn't be for instance milk or dairy if you leave it out too long out of the refrigerator you can't eat it because it's spoiled.

6:07This phrasal verb is interesting because it has a literal meaning to drive out of town and drive us out of this poisonous town. Maybe you literally drive out of a city by a car or if you're saying that we drove someone out of town it means this person was so disliked by everyone that everyone was so mean to them or like physically aggressive that they had to leave town or leave the area so it's used in both ways literally like oh we just drove out of town for the weekend like we went to a different city or we're going to drive them out of town because they're being you know racist or whatever it might be it means that we dislike this person so much we don't want them to live where we live or we don't want them being in our city. A lot of times I hear in sports especially soccer around the world like a coach or a player is so bad or does something you know so bad for the team that they get driven out of town or driven out of the country whatever it is because people dislike them so much and they take the sport so seriously.

7:08So now that we've talked about these simple action phrases that you can use on an everyday basis let's move on to some phrases that you'll hear people use on again that everyday basis to talk about managing their lives. Sometimes native speakers instead of saying we're becoming more strict we use this phrase we say we're going to put our foot down. I'm putting my foot down. A lot of times we use this phrase if we're trying to reduce behavior or reduce waste or something I'm putting my foot down there's no more wasting food in this house. So this might just you know indicate to everyone in your family like you have to eat all your food don't take food out if you're going to waste it. Native speakers use this phrase to put their foot down if they are firmly enforcing a situation. So the opposite of putting your foot down is being a pushover meaning like you said this is the rule this is how I'm going to enforce this and someone breaks the rule and you just let them do it. So you're either a pushover or you're putting your foot down and remaining strict on your boundaries or your rules.

8:08Another thing that we say if we're trying to reduce the amount of things that are being like wasted or reduce a behavior or whatever it might be we say we're going to dial back. Dial back Annie. Maybe you're dialing back your expectations. Maybe you had really strong expectations or really high expectations about a new employee at your work but you know they start in the first few weeks they're not really understanding the processes they're not getting much work done so you might say I have to dial back my expectations meaning I have to reduce my expectations for this person because clearly your expectations were too high and now you're being disappointed. Another really common way I can think of this phrasal verb being used is if someone is being really sarcastic and you're trying to tell them you know it's being it's being rude you know people aren't really enjoying it you might say you kind of need to dial back your sarcasm because it's offending people so in this case you want them to reduce or use less sarcasm.

9:10Dial back another phrasal verb that you'll hear in the modern world especially a work or a tech is to opt in. For those who opt in who choose to be in our community and not the individual. If you opt into something it means you choose to participate voluntarily so a lot of times if you get a new bank account or credit card it will ask you if you want to opt in to paperless statements and what this means is you are saying yes you can just you know keep the statements on the computer you don't have to physically mail me a piece of paper with all my banking information each month you're opting in you're saying yes this is okay a lot of times when you sign up for things it will ask you if you want to opt in to receive emails from that person or from that business so you're just agreeing again you're taking the option you're volunteering here but we just say I'm opting in to opt in the really useful phrasal verb especially when you're dealing with things

10:13online or just in any technical situation now we're getting into the more advanced part of the lesson these phrases are going to help you discuss problems or ideas and they're more just thinking phrasal verbs let's get started with this part talk through something talk through our options this phrase just means that you're going to discuss something step by step a lot of times if people are confused or they don't understand how to do something they might say can you talk me through this or you could say I'm going to talk you through this this means I'm going to very slowly explain it to you I'm going to be really patient with you in my explanation as well if you want to make sure that an event or a plan is going to you might say let's talk through the plan before it happens this just means you're going to go through it step by step in all of the details as well another phrase that's really good for talking about processes or strategies is go about or to go about doing something it just is talking about starting something in your strategy or your plan or

11:16how you're going to do it in a certain way so you might ask someone how are you going to go about starting a business it seems like a hard thing to start a business so you're kind of asking them for their plan or their strategies if you're unsure about how you're going to do something or how you're going to plan to do something you might say I'm not sure how I'm going to go about this so this phrasal verb it's kind of funky to use for the first few times but it will start becoming natural as you use it more and more here's a slightly more advanced english phrasal verb but it's really useful and native speakers love to use it because it's very specific and precise so if you want to say that you're going to carefully figure out you know the main idea or uncover some sort of detail you can say I'm going to tease out the main idea or I'm going to tease out more details this means you know you're trying to either ask someone a lot of questions to come up with these things or you're kind of thinking through again a plan with all of the details and all of the different aspects to

12:18try to figure out either the main idea let's tease out the main idea or let's tease out the details that we need to figure out here now i'm going to take you through two english phrasal verbs that can help you describe how situations develop over time if you hear a native english speaker say how did it go down how's it going down there they're not necessarily talking about how something just decreased or went down in direction usually when native english speakers say how did it go down or it went down like this they're talking about how it happened they're asking how did it happen so a lot of times you know if someone's describing this crazy story maybe there was a fight or something just wild happened you could say I can't believe it went down like that that means I can't believe it happened like that so this is a phrasal verb but it's almost like slaying as well it can also just be used really casually oh went one down at the meeting today i missed it what happened at the meeting today because i wasn't there

13:19another phrase that's pretty similar to this one except you know something just kind of happens gradually is how did it play out play it out we're leaving today and entering a world of Mickey Mouse waving princess meeting and greetings like saber clashing the twilight zone tower of terror dropping fancy flying space mounted launching galaxy rewinding what's the one that look galaxy rewinding fireworks igniting world of other worlds for whatever you love infinite worlds await at the most magical place on earth while Disney World Resort spring is here and the shopping list is long time to make a lows run by three bags get three free if stay green one cubic foot garden soil plus right now members can earn four times the points on an eligible purchase start spring off strong with these deals and more our best lineup is here at loaves valentine three twenty five while supplies last soil offer excludes

14:19laskin and white loyalty program subject to terms and conditions siloes dot com slash terms for details subject to change point booster subject to exclusions and more terms apply one time only offer really play it out when we say that something plays out it means it develops or happens over time so usually slowly over time if you are not sure how a plan is going to go you might say we'll just see how it plays out this just means we'll see how it happens if it goes well or if it does not go well now these next phrases are extremely emotional they're really useful for a relationship or they're common in just real conversations the first phrase is split up split up split up so when two people split up they either break up from a relationship or you can say they split up they got divorced you can also use this just to mean divide in a casual way like let's split up you go that way i'll go this way and you know it's using different ways but if you want to say that two people got divorced

15:21or broke up out of relationship usually romantically is when we use this phrase over you say what they split up they split up last year i split up with my husband last year no i didn't but that's just an example phrase in an end of relationship sometimes people emotionally disconnect they don't care about the relationship anymore and this next phrasal verb could be used you can say they checked out so to check out emotionally you can be talking about a relationship like the husband was checked out emotionally so they split up meaning they got divorced it means they just don't care anymore you know they're so mentally disengaged that we say it's like their brain has checked out of the relationship we can also just use this if we're you know having a really hard mental day maybe you could say i was so checked out at work today i didn't get enough sleep last night and i've just been so busy it just means you're not super engaged emotionally and just not thinking about what you're doing or if you want to say you can tell that someone else doesn't care or you know

16:25they're just too busy or they're tired you could say they were so checked out today this next phrase if you're protecting someone or making an excuse for them you can say you're going to cover for someone cover for someone thanks for covering this one is extremely common to use in english if you cover for someone you make an excuse for them so for instance if you cover for your co-worker your boss may say hey has anyone seen Lisa and you know that Lisa left a little bit early to go to doctor's appointment but you want your boss to not be able to know you might say oh you know what she actually had to go downstairs to make some copies but she'll be back in just a few minutes you want me to go talk to her so you're kind of covering for her or maybe some of the mistakes and you take the blame you're covering for them you're making an excuse or you're protecting them you might ask someone hey can you cover for me like i got to take a long lunch will you just let them know you know i'm around or whatever it might be you're kind of asking them to lie or protect you in a way now our last phrase is going to be used in a literal

17:26sense and an emotional sense you've probably heard this one hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on hang on if you ask someone for something or you ask them for help and they need you to wait really briefly for just a minute they may say hang on let me go get that for you or hang on i'll figure out the answer this just means wait briefly if you want to tell someone don't give up you can say hang on hang on please like don't give up so literally you could say like oh just hang on you can do it a lot of times people will also say hang in there hang in there that means don't give up emotionally or don't let yourself get too discouraged things will get better just hang on and things will get better so now i've given you some really simple english phrasal verbs to add to your everyday language and some really advanced ones as well you've done a great job in this lesson make sure to visit english with cala dot com to learn more about this list and learn more with me cala as your teacher and if you're in the mood make sure you check out the next english

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