14 PHRASAL VERBS with meanings you can’t guess!

hi everybody welcome to inkvid i'm adam in today's lesson i want to give you a few more phrasal verbs because i know they're very popular with students everybody wants to learn about phrasal verbs and again what are phrasal verbs they're a combination of a verb and a preposition and the problem that a lot of people have is understanding what these things mean because in many cases when you combine the two words the verb and the preposition you have a very completely you have a completely different meaning than the two words themselves now this is especially true with the phrasal verbs i'm going to show you today okay these ones you probably can't even guess the secondary meanings some of the literal meanings like taking the words as they are they might make sense but then the secondary meanings you really can't understand just by looking at the word so somebody needs to tell you so that's what i'm going to do today so for example let's look at the first one size up what does it mean to size up a person or a situation or to size someone up now a lot of people think of size up maybe you know you go to a hamburger restaurant and they ask you if you want to size up so you get from a medium french fries to a large from a medium drink to a large drink sure that's what it means but to size someone up means to measure the person not physically you're not measuring height or width or weight what you're measuring is the person's ability or the person's confidence or the person's value to you in some way right so when you for example when you go to a job interview yes the interviewer is asking you questions that they have and they ask everybody but what they're really doing is they're sizing you up they're trying to see what kind of person you are whether you will be good for the company whether you will get along with your coworkers whether you're competent so all these things they're measuring about you by not so much the words you say but how you say them are you using your hands are you confident are you slouching because you're a little bit nervous right so all these things help them measure you and you can do this for a person you can do do this for a situation so for example i want i have a big company i want to buy a smaller company but before i do that i want to go there and just size up the company make sure it's worth my investment okay so that is size up so again by itself very hard to guess uh the meaning of this word so let's look at dish out so again if you go to a diner and you order a meal when the meal is ready the cook will click the building and it'll say dish out means the waitress or the waiter can come pick it up and take it to the customer but to dish out also means to basically it's like give but it's give in a very aggressive way when you dish something out you're a little bit insulting or attacking someone in most cases or you're making fun of right so you're dishing out the insults you're dishing out the jokes means you're spreading them you're giving them very quickly very aggressively okay now there's a another common expression if you can't take it don't dish it out so if you if you don't like people making fun of you don't make fun of other people right that's what that means if you can't take it don't dish it out dish it out give it one way rat out a rat of course you know is like a a big mouse it's a very similar to a mouse but different to rat someone out or to rat out someone or a company or a government agency whatever the case may be means to expose so if somebody does something bad and you know about it you can rat them out you can tell the police or you can tell your boss or you can tell somebody that this person did something and when you do that this person is exposed it's not a secret anymore he or she can't hide so you rat them out like taking the rat out of the hole and showing the world that the rat exists i guess and that that's why it's usually about something bad when we think of rat rats are have a very negative image so when you rat someone out you're showing the world that this person did something bad dig in now of course you can dig with a shovel you can dig into the ground which is very literal when you another meaning of dig in means help yourself like do or take or consume so for example with food everybody sits around the table and then the host or hostess says okay everybody dig in means eat just go for it take it and eat it as much as you want when you dig in you you consume or you take in very aggressively again i there's that word aggressive but with a lot of energy with a lot of pleasure i guess you could say especially with food dig in eat as much as you want go for it now fill out i think a lot of people think oh yeah i know this one you fill out an application or you fill out a questionnaire very simple but fill out can also refer to a person's body so for example when i was young i was very very very skinny very skinny people thought i was anorexic sometimes but then one year i suddenly i filled out all my skinniness filled out and i had a kind of a normal looking body finally right so when i i remember i was away from home for almost a year and when i came home none of my friends or family recognized me because i gained 30 pounds in less than a year but i didn't look fat i looked actually normal i was just too skinny before i i filled out finally it was very satisfying to water down and again remember all of these all the first words are all verbs so even if the thing doesn't look like a verb remember that it is water you think of as a noun watered down means maybe the water level is down that's fine but to water something down or to water down a text or something means to make it much simpler okay that's why sometimes we say to dumb down but some people don't like to use the word dumb so you can use water down to make something simpler or to make something weaker so for example if you have a bottle of alcohol and you add water to it what you're doing is you're watering down the alcohol you're making it weaker and you can use this for a lot of situations where you can basically add something or make something simpler and makes it weaker and maybe easier to digest okay farm out now this is a pretty common phrasal verb in the last decade or so or even two decades to farm out means to outsource now if you're not sure what outsource means a company that has a lot of business with international customers for example like a technical support or customer service now they could pay the people in the country where they're headquartered but that could be very expensive so for example in america or canada to pay somebody to answer phone calls and ask sorry answer people's questions could be very expensive so these companies farm out the work to other countries where the labor is cheaper so for example in canada it's very common for companies to farm out the tech support work to places like india for example indians are very good with computers very good with technology but they also work for less than canadians do so canadian companies farm out the work they send it out to somebody else so the the idea of farm comes from like you send a cattle for example one farmer has cattle he sends it to another cattle they make new cattle and then the first one comes back right so that's part of the thinking there to send out somewhere else now here i have suck up and suck it up two different meanings which is why i put them both but i put them together so suck up again if you're thinking about a vacuum cleaner a vacuum cleaner sucks up dirt from the ground that's fine if you suck up to someone for example your boss it means you're flattering them too much you're saying too many good things to them because you want them to like you maybe give you a promotion or maybe not fire you if you're not doing such a good job if you suck up to a teacher you're always like asking questions you're always telling the teacher how pretty she looks or how handsome he looks and you hope that the teacher will give you better grades people don't like people who suck up but people do it all the time a person who does who sucks up to somebody a lot we simply call a suck-up okay you just put the two words together and you have a noun but to suck it up means to basically take it in and not complain right tolerate so if you're doing a very hard job and you're very tired and you say to your boss boss i'm tired i got to take a break and your boss says suck it up we have to finish this work today right it means just tolerate the tiredness tolerate the pain just hold it in a little bit longer do the job and then go home and relax and do whatever you want suck it up okay especially when we're talking about pain or something negative feeling now man up people think it's very strange because they've never seen man as a verb now technically man has actually many uses as a verb you man the battlefields or you man the stations means you somebody is standing there taking care of the thing to man up means to be a man right like don't complain it's a little similar to suck it up man up means don't be afraid don't complain just do it have confidence and just get the job done and then later do whatever you want okay it's a little bit slangy but it's still commonly used and you can say this to a woman too it doesn't have to be to a man if you tell a woman come on man up some women will get offended but the idea is just be strong be confident and do what needs to be done weigh in so now again in sports let's say ufc or boxing you have different categories of fighters you have a heavyweight a middleweight a lightweight featherweight etc all of these are different weights of the fighters so before each match all the fighters must stand on a scale and get their weight measured and to make sure they're in the right class of fighter but to weigh in on something can also mean to offer your own opinion or to offer your own suggestion so a company wants to make some changes but they want to make sure that all the employees are happy so they ask all the employees to weigh in on the changes that the company needs to take to offer their opinion to offer their suggestion or advice etc so basically have your say weigh in light up light up means make a place brighter that's the literal if we're looking at light as light to light up also means to beat by a very heavy score especially we're talking about sports so if one team lights up another team means they're scoring many points against this team in more of a physical thing if one person lights up another person it means it beats him up very much so if i'm fighting somebody and i get many punches into his face which i don't do by the way but if i did then you could say i lit him up right i beat him very much with a lot of punches it's a bit slang as well so be careful how you use that and speaking of beat if you beat someone to something that means you you reach the goal or whatever that something is first right so if i'm have if i'm having a race and i i beat all the other racers to the finish line means i win but if i beat someone to like a goal or i beat someone to speak to someone that means i did it first so there's a girl that all the boys like and all the boys are thinking okay i'm going to ask her out i'm going to ask her out but i asked her out first so i b and she said yes and we went on a date i beat all the other boys to her to the date to the relationship etc so beat two get get there first essentially so that's all there is for all of these there are a lot of phrasal verbs in english and i know they're very confusing for a lot of people the main thing is first of all pay attention when you hear them don't be shy about asking people what does that mean but also go on the internet and if you hear if you hear some phrasal verb just do a search go to the dictionary do a search on your search engine and just start looking and always keep notes phrasal verbs are basically vocabulary every time you learn new vocabulary write it down use it in a sentence and that's how you're going to remember okay it's just practice there's no secret to it you just have to listen pay attention when you're reading when you're listening look them up in the dictionary keep notes and these will become much easier as you go along okay so that's it if you have any questions about these please go to inkvid.com you can ask in the comment section there's also a quiz where you can test your understanding of all the explanations i gave you here for these phrasals and uh yeah that's it if you like the video please give me a like don't forget to subscribe to my channel and come back next time for more vocab grammar tips all kinds of interesting things okay see you bye

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Length: 14min 42sec (882 seconds)

Published: Sun May 02 2021