Hi. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. In today's video we're going to look
at another set of phrasal verbs. Now, just as a reminder:
What is a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb
and a preposition: "in", "on", "at", "off", etc. and the combination usually makes other
meanings than the two words themselves. Now, some phrasal verbs obviously have more
than one meaning, so we're going to look at the different meanings
with the verb "kick". For example: "kick in", "kick back", "kick out",
"kick off", "kick about" or "kick around", "kick up", and "kick over". Now, some of these will have more than one
meaning, some will just have the one meaning. Some of these can also be joined to make a
noun, and we're going to look at that as well. So we're going to
start with "kick in". A few meanings to "kick in". The more literal one, like takes the verb
"kick" means to kick with your leg, so if you kick something in, you're
breaking it with your feet. So the most common example is,
like, police, they go into... They want to go into an apartment or a house
and arrest somebody, so they kick in the door. They just break the
door and they go in. We can also say: "kick down"
for the same meaning. They kick down the door or they kick in the
door, so physically break with your feet. Another meaning of "kick"
is basically take effect. This is especially used when we're talking
about drugs, when we're taking a pill. So the doctor gave you a pill, maybe you have
a really bad headache and you take a Tylenol or an Advil, or Aspirin or whatever,
and it doesn't work right away. It takes a little time
for the pill to kick in. So basically to take
effect, to start working. So another meaning is start... But usually a process. Start a process. So, now, we can also use
this in other situations. For example, a policy. So the government decided to increase
taxes, but they don't do it suddenly. Okay? Because a lot of people will not be ready
for it, it will cause a lot of problems. So they say: "Okay, starting in six months,
we have a new policy where the tax will go up by 1%." So this policy will kick in on September 1st,
for example, whenever that six months down the road is. So, "kick in" start
or go into effect. Okay? Now, we can also use
"kick in" to contribute. So, we're going to
have an office party. Janice, the accountant, has a birthday and
everybody wants to, you know, show her... Show their appreciation for her hard work,
so everybody's going to kick in five bucks, and we collect all this money and
we create a party for Janice. Okay? So, "kick in" basically means
give, contribute to a pool. So those are all the "kick ins". Now, "kick back". First of all, there's the literal
one where you kick back. Right? So, to relax. -"So what are you
doing this weekend?" -"Oh, nothing, just
kicking back." It means I'm sitting at home with my feet up on
a table, and I'm just relaxing, doing nothing. Another meaning of "kick back" is payment, is a
type of payment, but usually it means a bribe. Okay? A bribe means you're paying
somebody to do something for you. The most common example that I can think of
is doctors and pharmaceutical companies, the companies that make the drugs. So the doctor, all his patients come in and
he says: "Oh, you need this prescription. Here you go, go buy the pills. Here, you need this
prescription." They don't need it. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but some
doctors just prescribe medicine for everybody for everything. Why? Because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical
company gives the doctor a "kickback". So this can be a noun as well. A "kickback" or "kickbacks". Okay? It's a noun, it basically means a bribe,
a payment for doing them a favour. Okay? So, to relax or to pay sort of
underneath as a gift, as a bribe. "To kick out", okay? "To kick out" could be physical, means you
take somebody and you kick them out the door. So if you go to a club and you're not behaving
very nicely, the bouncer, the big guys standing at the door, they will take you
and they will kick you out. They will throw you
out of the club. But it doesn't have
to be physical. You could be in a band or in a team, or whatever,
and your teammates or your bandmates have a bit of a problem with you,
it means they kick you out. They expel you. "Expel", usually use this word at school, if
you do something bad at school, the school will expel you, they
will remove you. So they will kick you out, it's
a more slang approach to it. And that's it, so basically a kick out physically
or kick out, remove somebody, force them to leave. Now, before I get into "kick off", "kick out"
and "kick off" can also mean the same thing, means to remove. But "kick off", you would kick somebody
off a bus, or a plane, or a train. So anything that you... Basically, you get on the
bus, you get into a car. Right? So anything that is "on", you can
get kicked off of or kicked out of. So, kicked off a bus, kicked
out of the car, so remove. So, again, so "kick off", basically
remove from a bus, a train, whatever. That's one meaning, that's
the physical meaning. Then there's also start. "To kick something off" or to "kick
things off" means to start something. So, we're going to kick off this meeting with
a little speech by Mr. Smith who wants to let us know about
something, an announcement. So to... We're going to kick
it off, start. In football, the game of American
football, the game begins with a kickoff. Okay? So here, again, we
use it as a noun. "A kickoff" means they... Somebody kicks the ball, it goes flying, the
other guy catches it, and the game starts. So, but it basically
means start. Okay. "Kick about", "kick around", basically these
two mean the same thing and are used mostly in the same way, which is
why I put them together. In a very informal situation,
this could mean discuss. So, somebody... Everybody will bring some ideas to the meeting
and we're just going to kick them around, kick them about, make sure everybody has their
say, think about it, if it's good, if it's bad, etc. So, "kick around", it's informal
discussion of something, of ideas usually. We can also use it to
talk about just spending time a little bit aimlessly,
not having any plans. So, again: -"What are you
doing this weekend?" -"Oh, I'm just going to kick
around with some friends. I'm just going to kick
about with some friends." Well, we're going to go to a few clubs, a few
bars, just look around, see what happens. No real plans for this. Now, "kick around" we can sometimes also use
when we talk about, like, for example, bullying somebody, to bully. Like, it literally means to kick somebody,
so to be a little bit physically aggressive towards somebody. So if you're kicking somebody
around, you're treating them badly. You could be physically treating them badly, it could
also be verbally, or mentally, emotionally, etc. More with "around", less with "about",
but more or less the same idea. "Kick up", so usually we kick up a fuss, kick
up a fuss or kick up a storm, or kick up a stink. Phew, right? That's a stink. So, "kick up a stink",
basically cause trouble. It could also mean
to cause pain. So, some people they have children who do not
take the word "No" very well, so the child says: -"Oh, I want ice cream." -"No. You can't have ice cream until you have dinner",
and this kid starts, you know, ranting and raving, and screaming,
and kicking the ground. And basically if you think if there's a ground,
and the kid starts kicking and screaming, all the dust comes up. Right? So, "kick up a storm" basically
means make trouble, cause trouble. You can also "kick up" in terms of pain, so
if I lift something heavy my back might kick up, it means it might
start hurting. We also use the phrasal
verb "act up". "Act up" means give me trouble. "Kick up" means it will
give me a bit of pain. Okay/ Actually, I forgot one. Let me go back to "kick back". "Kick back" is the same idea. "Kick back" can mean to resist. So, for example, if I own a factory and I
tell all my employees that I'm going to have to cut their hours and there's no more
overtime pay, so they kick back, they... Basically they resist this
change or they revolt. They don't like it, so they're going to start
pushing back against me, the owner of the thing. And in this case we can also use
"kickback" in terms of the resistance. Right? So, I made a new policy for the workers
and there was a lot of kickback. They revolted, a lot of them quit, some of
them spoke about going on strike against my new changes. Okay, so I forgot that one. And "kick over" is very simple. You kick something and it falls
over, so basically topple. So, only the one meaning, very literal, kick
with your leg, make something fall over. Okay, and that's
basically it for "kick". I hope everybody
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