Phrasals C-E

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 down

- Stop being angry or emotionally excited

Cancel out

- Have an opposite effect on something that has happened, taking things back to the beginning

Care for

- Like

Carried away

- Get so emotional that you lose control

Carry forward

- Include a figure in a later calculation
- Make something progress

Carry offf

- 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 off

- Take someone away, usually under arrest or to prison
- Take something away, especially if stealling or without permission

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

Catch on

- Become popular
- Finally understand what is going on

Catch up

- Get work, etc, up to date.

Cater for

- To provide what is necessary

Cater to

- To provide what is needed, often seen negatively

Cave in

- Collapse
- Stop resisting or refusing

Chalk out

- To cut a line of cocaine

Chalk up

- To achieve something good

Chalk up to

- Explain the reason for a problem

Chance upon

- Find something by accident

Change over

- Change a system

Charge up

- Put electricty into a battery

Charge with

- Accuse somebody of a crime

Chase up

- Ensure that someone remembers to do something

Chat up

- Talk to someone you are sexually interested in to get them interested in you

Cheat on

- Be sexually unfaithful

Cheat out of

- Get money from someone under false pretences

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

Cheer on

- Encourage

Cheer up

- Be less unhappy

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 out

- Be too afraid to do something

Chill out

- Relax

Chime in

- Contribute to a discussion

Chip away at

- Gradually reduce something to make it less powerful, effective, etc

Chip in

- Contribute some money
- Contribute to a discussion

Chop down

- Fell or cut down a tree

Chop up

- Cut into small pieces

Chuck up

- Vomit, be sick

Churn out

- Produce, usually quickly or in large amounts without much regard to quality

Clag up

- Make something sticky

Clam up

- Be quiet, refure to speak

Clamp down on

- Restrict or try to stop something

Claw back

- Get money back
- Retake possession with difficulty

Clean out

- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted things.
- Cause someone to spend all their money

Clean up

- Tidy and clean

Clear out

- Tidy up thoroughly and throw away unwanted stuff.

Clear up

- Cure or recover from an infection
- Tidy up

Click through

- Open an advertisement on the Internet

Climb down

- Accept that you are wrong and change your position

Clog up

- Block, slow movement right down

Close down

- Close a shop, branch or business permanently

Cloud over

- Get very cloudy

Clown about

- Behave stupidly or waste time

Clown around

- Behave stupidly or waste time

Cock up

- Ruin or spoil something

Colour (Color) up

- Blush

Come about

- Happen, occur

Come across

- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you

Come apart

- Break into pieces

Come before

- Appear in court charged with a crime or offence

Come by

- Visit
- Acquire

Come down

- Rain
- Travel

Come down on

- Criticise heavily

Come down with

- Fall ill

Come forth

- Appear

Come forth with

- Provide information

Come from

- Country or town where you were born

Come in

- Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.<
- Receive news

Come into

- Be important or relevant
- Inherit

Come into use

- Start being used

Come off

- When something breaks off
- Be successful

Come off it

- I don't believe what you're saying; used as an imperative

Come on

- Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioninng (machines, etc)

Come out

- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears

Come out in

- Have a rash or similar skin problem

Come over

- Feel strange

Come round

- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion

Come through

- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result

Come through with

- Provide something needed

Come to

- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in

Come up

- Appearr
- Rise (the sun)

Come up against

- Encounter problems or difficulties

Come up with

- Think of a solution, excuse, etc.

Come upon

- Find by chance

Conjure up

- Create a picture or memory in someone's mind
- Create something without many resources

Conk out

- Fall fast asleep
- Suddenly breakdown or stop working

Cool down

- Get cooler
- Become calm

Cop it

- Get into trouble

Cop off

- Leave work or school early
- Kiss, pet or have sex with someone

Cop out

- Choose an easy alternative

Cotton on

- To work out the truth

Could do with

- Need or want something

Count in

- Include or involve

Count on

- Depend, rely

Count out

- Exclude

Count up

- Add

Cozy up

- Make yourself comfortable

Cozy up to

- Make yourself popular with someone

Crack down on

- Use more authority than usual

Crack on

- Continue doing something with energy

Crack up

- Have a nervous breakdown
- Have bad reception on a mobile phone
- Burst out laughing
- Damage a car bbadly

Crank out

- Produce a lot of something fast

Crank up

- Inject non-medical drugs
- Start a machine, originally with a handlle
- Increase, make something bigger

Crash out

- Sleep at someone's house because you are too tired, drunk, etc. to leave
- Fall asleep

Creep out on

-- To do the same activity for a very long time

Crop up

- Appear unexpectedly

Cross off

- Delete, remove from a list

Cross out

- Put as line through some writing to show it is wrong

Cry off

- To cancel an arrangement

Cry out

- Shout because you are in pain

Cut back

- Reduce

Cut back on

- Reduce expenditure

Cut down

- Consume less
- Shoot

Cut down on

- Reduce

Cut it out

- Stop your unfair or unreasonable behaviour

Cut off

- Disconnect
- Isolate or make inaccessible

Cut out

- Exclude
- When an engine or motor stops
- Cut a picture or similar from a magazine, etc

Cut out on

- Let down, snub

Dash off

- Leave somewhere quickly
- Do something quickly, especially writing

Dawn on

- Finally realise or understand something

Die away

- Become quieter or inaudible (of a sound)

Die down

- Decrease or become quieter

Die for

- Want something a lot

Die off

- Become extinct

Die out

- Become extinct or disappear

Dig in

- Start eating greedily

Dig into

- Reach inside to get something

Dig up

- Find something that is supposed to be secret

Dine out

- Have dinner outside your home

Dine out on

- Tell a story repeatedly that is well received

Dip in

- Put something in a liquid for a short time

Dip into

- Read parts of a book, but not all
- Take money out of your savings

Disagree with

- Make someone feel sick or ill

Dish out

- Serve food
- Give something, usually when you shouldn't
- Criticise, when you can't take criticism in return

Dish up

- Serve food

Dive in

- Start doing something, usually without planning
- Start eating

Dive into

- Reach inside something quickly

Divvy out

- Divide, share

Divvy up

- Divide, share

Do away with

- Abolish, get rid of

Do out of

- Cheat somebody out of something that is rightfully theirs

Do up

- Close or fasten clothes, etc.
- Repair and renovate

Do without

- Manage without something

Doze off

- Fall asleep

Drag on

- Be unnecessarily long

Draw back

- Retreat, move backwards

Draw down

- Reduce levels
- Get funding
- To deplete by consumption or heavy spending

Draw in

- Get dark earlier
- Arrive at a station (for trains)

Draw into

- Get involved in something unpleasant

Draw on

- Pass slowly (time)
- Inhale smoke from a cigerette, cigar, etc

Draw out

- Make something continue longer than needed
- Make a shy person more outgoing

Draw up

- Prepare a contract
- When a vehicle stops

Dream of

- Not think or consider

Dream up

- Invent something, have an idea

Dredge up

- Discover things about someone's past

Dress down

- Dress casually
- Scold

Dress up

- Dress very smartly

Drill down through

- Get to the bottom of something, get detailed data

Drill into

- Repeat something many times to make someone learn it

Drink up

- Finish a drink

Drive away

- Force an animal or someone to leave a place

Drive back

- Repulse, force back

Drive by

- Do domething out of a car

Drive off

- Drive away from a place

Drive out

- Force someone to leave a place

Drive up

- Make something increase

Drone on

- Talk boringly for a long time

Drop by

- Pay a brief visit

Drop in

- Visit without having made arrangements

Drop out

- Quit a course

Drum into

- To make someone learn or believe something by constant repetition

Drum out

- Force someone out of their job or position

Drum up

- Increase support or interest

Duck out of

- Avoid doing something

Duff up

- Beat or hit someone repeatedly

Dumb down

- Reduce the intellectual level of something in search of popularity

Dwell on

- Spend a lot of time on something

Dwell upon

- Spend a lot of time on something

Ease off

- Reduce pressure

Ease up

- Relax, calm down

Eat away

- Destroy slowly

Eat in

- Eat at home

Eat into

- Use something valuable when you don't want to

Eat out

- Eat in a restaurant

Eat up

- Eat all of something
- Consume
- Consume something you don't want to be consumed

Ebb away

- Disappear gradually

Edge out

- Gradually push someone or something out of their position

Edge up

- Approach slowly

Egg on

- Encourage

Eke out

- Make something like money last as long as possible

Embark on

- Start a project or venture

Embark upon

- Start a project or venture

Empty out

- Empty something completely
- Remove some things or everything from a container

End in

- Finish a certain way

End up

- Become or do something unplanned

End up with

- Get as a result of something

Enter for

- Join or enter a competition

Enter into

- Become involved in or accept

Eye up

- Look carefully at someone