Phrasal Verbs with up 5

If you 'do up' your coat, you fasten it.

• Do up your jacket. It looks untidy.

• Can you do up my coat for me? My hands are frozen.

'Do up' can also mean to decorate or make repairs to something.

• Buy me the paint and I will do up my room.

• I'm going to do up my car so that I can sell it.

To 'hold up' can mean to delay.

• We were held up by a traffic accident.

• I don't mean to hold you up but we must finish this discussion.

To 'keep up with' can mean to go at the same speed as.

• It is difficult to keep up with all the changes they are making.

• I don't know how you keep up with all the news.

To 'keep up' can mean to maintain.

• It is difficult to keep up the payments on my new car.

• I can't afford to keep up an apartment in town and a house in the country.

If you 'kick up a fuss', you complain loudly about something.

• He will kick up a fuss when he finds out that he is not invited to the meeting.

• The restaurant had given away our table so I kicked up a fuss and got another one.

If you 'stir up' trouble, you cause it by agitation.

• She is always stirring up trouble about some grievance or another.

• Some shareholders tried to stir up trouble about the sale of the factory.

If you 'sum up', you briefly restate the main points of a meeting or discussion.

• I'd like to sum up my presentation with this quote from Winston Churchill.

• Could somebody sum up what you talked about this morning?

If you 'turn up' a dial, you increase it.

• Could you turn up the volume? I cannot hear it.

• That's the brightest I can make the picture. I've turned up the control to the maximum.

If you 'turn up' somewhere, you arrive, sometimes unexpectedly.

• John turned up at the party, even though he wasn't invited.

• He's always turning up for work an hour late.

Phrasal Verbs with out

If you 'ask someone out', you invite them out on a date (with the hope of romance between you.)

• I want to ask her out but I am too shy.

• He asked me out on Friday but I told him I had to wash my hair.

If you 'cut something out', you no longer do it/ eat it etc.

• My doctor told me to cut out dairy products.

• I cut out going to the gym because I did not have the time and now I am fat.

If you 'eat out', you go to a restaurant.

• He never cooks and always eats out or has a takeaway.

• For my birthday, I would like to eat out somewhere nice.

If you 'jump out', you come out quickly and suddenly.

• I was walking quietly down the street when this young man jumped out in front of me.

• Stop the car at the corner and I will jump out.

If you 'keep someone out', you prevent them from entering.

• There is extra security today to keep the protestors out.

• Please keep out of my office. I need some peace and quiet.

If you 'leave something out', you do not mention it.

• Did you leave anything out or is that the whole story?

• It is just a summary. I left out a lot of the details.

If something 'slips out', it escapes quickly and quietly.

• I have slipped out of the meeting for a few minutes but I must get back.

• I did not intend to tell him. It just slipped out.

If you 'squeeze something out ' , you get it out using force or pressure.

• I can never squeeze out that last bit of toothpaste from the tube.

• I managed to squeeze out of her that the job was offered to Alain.

If you 'stay out', you do not come home.

• I stayed out all night and I feel terrible.

• We stayed out celebrating until the early hours.

If you 'walk out' , you leave as a sign of protest.

• When we heard their derisory offer, we walked out of the meeting.

• This presentation is dreadful. I have a good mind to walk out.