Face off
- Confront
Face up to
- Accept an unpleasant truth
Faff about
- Behave indecisively
Faff around
- Behave indecisively
Fall back
- Retreat
Fall back on
- Be able to use in an emergency
Fall behind
- Make less progress
Fall down
- Fall on the ground
- Have a weak point
Fall for
- Be attracted to somebody, fall in love
- Believe a lie or a piece of deception
Fall in
- Collapse
Fall off
- Decrease
Fall out
- Argue and be on bad terms with someone
- Lose hair
Fall over
- Fall on the ground
Fall through
- Be unsuccessful
Farm out
- Give or contract work to someone else
Fart about
- Waste time doing silly things
Fathom out
- Understand something
Fatten up
- Give an animal a lot to eat to make it fat
Feed off
- Eat a food as part of an animals diet
- Use something to your advantage
Feed on
- Grow stronger
- Consume in an animal's diet
- Give someone a particular food
Feed up
- Give someone a lot of food to restore their health, make them bigger, etc
Feel up
- Touch sexually, grope
Feel up to
- Feel capable of doing something
Fend for
- Take care of yourself or someone with help from other people
Fend off
- Resist something successfully
- Push an attacker away
Ferret out
- Search and discover something
Fess up
- Confess, admit something reluctantly
- Give
Fess up to
- Confess, admit reluctantly to something
Fiddle about
- Waste time doing silly things, or doing things unsuccessfully
Fiddle around
- Waste time doing silly things, or unsuccessul things
- Make small movements with your hands
Fiddle away
- Waste time
Fight back
- Defend yourself, resist an attack
- Try to control and emotion and keep it hidden
Fight it out
- Struggle to see who wins, both by arguing or fighting
Fight off
- Fight an attacker and force them back
- Resist an illness or emotion
Figure on
- Plan, expect
Figure out
- Find the answer to a problem
File away
- Put a document in the correct place for storage in a filing system
Fill in
- Complete a form
- Substitute someone at work
Fill in for
- Substitute
Fill in on
- Give someone information
Fill out
- Complete a form
Fill up
- Fill something completely
Filter in
- Move into a lane of traffic without making other cars stop
Filter out
- Remove something unwanted
Find out
- Discover
Finish off
- Finish completely
Fink on
- Give away secrets about someone
Fink out
- Fail to keep a promise, arrangement, etc
Fire away
- Ask questions
Fire off
- Send quickly, angrily or many (letter, emails, etc)
- Shoot, fire a gun (usually repeatedly)
Fire up
- Start a computer
- Excite, become excited
Firm up
- Make things clearer in a negotiation or discussion
Fish for
- Try to get some information or to get someone to say something
Fish out
- Remove something from a bag, pocket, etc
- Remove from water, such as the sea, rivers, etc
Fit in
- Get on in a group of people
- Have enough time or space for something
Fit into
- Become part of
Fit up
- Frame someone- make them look guilty of something they haven't done
- Provide equipment
Fix up
- Make an arrangement
Fizzle out
- End in an unsuccessful way
Flag down
- Signal at a vehicle to get it to stop
Flag up
- Raise an issue, or highlight its importance
Flake out
- Fall asleep from exhaustion
Flare out
- Get angry suddenly
Flare up
- When trouble suddenly appears
Flesh out
- Add more details or information
Flog off
- Sell something cheaply to get rid of it
Fly about
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly around
- Circulate (rumours, etc)
Fly at
- Attack
- Criticise or shout angrily
Fly by
- When time appears to move quickly
Fly into
- Change emotion quickly
Focus on
- Concentrate
Fold up
- Make a sheet of paper smaller
Fool around
- Not be serious
- Be unfaithful
Freak out
- Become very disturbed or angry
Freshen up
- Wash quickly and improve appearance
- Add more alcohol to a glass before it is empty
- Quickly improve the appearance of something
Front for
- Represent someone, especially when covering illegal or wrongful activities
Front off
- Confront someone and let them know you are prepared to fight
Front onto
- Face (of a building)
Front out
- Face up to someone, withstand criticism
Front up
- Appear somewhere for a short time
- Advance cash for something
Frown on
- Disapprove
Gag for
- Want something a lot
Gang up
- Form a group against something or someone
Gang up on
- Harass, bully
Gear up
- Get ready for a busy period
Geek out
- Talk at length about computing
Get across
- Communicate successfully
Get ahead
- Progress
Get ahead of
- Move in front of
Get along
- Have a good relationship
Get along with
- Have a good relationship with someone
Get around
- Become known
Get around to
- Finally manage to do something
Get at
- Criticise
- Mean
Get away
- Escape
- Go on holiday or for a short break
Get away with
- Not get caught doing something wrong
Get back
- Return
Get back at
- Take revenge
Get back to
- Respond to a contact
Get behind with
- Be late paying instalments for something.
Get by
- Have just enough money to live on
Get down
- Make someone depressed
Get down to
- Start work
Get in
- Arrange for someone to do a job
- Arrive (train, plane, etc.)
- Arrive home
- Enter a car or taxi
Get off
- Escape punishment
- Leave a bus, train, etc.
Get off with
- Have casual sex with
Get on
- Continue doing something
- Enter a bus, train, plane, etc.
- Make progress
Get on with
- Have a good relationship
Get out of
- Avoid doing something you dislike
- Leave a car, van, etc.
Get over
- Recover
Get over with
- Do something unpleasant rather than delaying it any more
Get round (around) to
- Finally manage to do something
Get round (or around)
- Persuade someone
Get through
- Contact
- Consume
- Finish
Get through to
- Make someone understand
Get to
- Annoy, irritate
- Arrive
Get together
- Meet socially
Get up
- Get out of bed
- Organise
Get up to
- Do something wrong or naughty
Give away
- Entrust your daughter to her husband through the marriage ceremony
- Tell a secret
Give back
- Return something you've borrowed
Give in
- Stop doing something because it's too hard or requires too much energy
- Submit homework, etc.
Give of
- Contribute without expecting anything in return
Give off
- Emit pollution or something else unpleasant
Give onto
- Open into a place, for a door or window
Give out
- Distribute
- Stop working
- Have no more of a supply
Give over!
- Stop doing something bad or annoying
Give up
- Stop doing something that had been a habit
Give up on
- Lose faith in or stop believing in something or someone
Give yourself up
- Surrender to the police or authorities
- Try to minimise the importance of something
Go about
- Deal with something
Go after
- Chase, try to get
Go against
- Lose a decision or a verdict of a court
Go ahead
- Proceed
Go along with
- Accept a decision or suggestion
Go back on
- Break a promise
Go by
- The passing of time
- Trust or depend on for correct information
Go down
- Decrease, get smaller
- Sink
- Sunset
- Go to prison
Go down with
- Fall ill
Go for
- Attack
- Be attracted to
- Choose, select
Go forth
- Leave a place
Go in
- Go to hospital for treatment, surgery, etc.
Go in for
- Enter a competition
Go into
- Discuss in some detail
- Enter a profession
Go off
- Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
- Go bad
- Start to dislike
Go on
- Continue
- Happen
Go on about
- Talk too much
Go out
- Stops burning
Go out with
- Have a relationship with
Go over
- Look at something, revise
- Visit
Go through
- Experience
- Read again
Go through with
- Do or complete something you've agreed to
Go under
- Go bankrupt
Go up
- Rise
Go up to
- Approach
Go with
- Combine nicely
Go without
- Not have
Goof around
- Fool around, not be serious
Goof off
- Avoid or leave work
Goof up
- Mess, spoil
Grass up
- Report someone to a person in authority
Grey out
- Disable a function in a computer program, leaving it visible but not working
Grind away
- Keep working at something
Grind down
- Reduce or destroy someone's enthusiasm
Grind out
- Produce something with great difficulty
Grow into
- Grow to fit large clothes
Grow out of
- Grow too large for clothes
- Lose interest as you grow older or become more mature
Grow up
- Mature, become adult
Gun for
- Try to destroy an opponent
Hack around
- Waste time
Hack into
- Break into a computer system
Hack off
- Annoy
Hammer away at
- Work relentlessly
Hammer into
- Repeat something over a period of time to make someone remember it
Hammer out
- Negotiate and reach an agreement
Hand back
- Return
Hand down
- Pass on to the next generation
- Give a formal decision
Hand in
- Submit work for appraisal
Hand on
- Give to someone else
- Transmit knowledge to the next generation
Hand out
- Distribute
Hand over
- Give
Hang around
- Stay in a place
Hang on
- Wait
Hang out
- Spend time socially
Hang up
- End a phone call
Hang up on
- End a phone call with someone
Harp on
- Talk repeatedly about something
Have against
- Dislike, disagree or hold a grudge (Usually negative)
Have around
- Entertain someone in your home
Have down as
- Think of someone or something in a particular way
Have in
- Have a supply of something in a particular place
- Get someone to do some work
- Entertain people in your home
Have it away
- Have sex with someone, especially casual sex
Have it in for
- Hold a grudge
Have it off
- Have sex
Have it out with
- Discuss or argue an issue to improve a situation
Have off
- Take time off work
Have on
- Be wearing
- Have an electronic device switched on
- Have an arrangement
- Tease, deceive
- Be in possession at a particular time
- Know something about someone that could harm them
Have over
- Receive a guest
Have round
- Entertain someone in your home
Have up
- Make someone appear in court
Head for
- Move or travel towards
Head off
- Stop someone or force them to change direction
- Prevent something bad happening
- Leave somewhere to go to another place
Head out
- Go out
Head up
- Be in charge
Heat up
- Make food hot
Help out
- Give assistance
Hit back
- Attack or criticise
Hit for
- Get someone to pay or donate money
Hit it off
- Have a good relationship from the first time you meet a person
Hit it off with
- Like someone from the first time you meet them
Hit on
- Have an idea
- Talk to someone to try to attract them sexually
- Ask for money
Hit out at
- Respond angrily to criticism
Hit up
- Inject drugs
- Ask someone for some money
Hit up on
- Inject drugs
Hit upon
- Have an idea
Hit with
- Surprise someone with some information or news
Hold against
- Have a grudge against someone, or little respect
Hold back
- Not show emotion
- Prevent something moving forwards or progressing
- Not disclose information or make it public
Hold back from
- Not allow yourself to do something
Hold down
- Keep a job
- Stop someone or something from moving
Hold forth
- State your opinions about something, especially when talking for a long time and boringly
Hold off
- When bad weather doesn't appear
- Stop someone from attacking or beating you
Hold on
- Wait
- To hold tightly
Hold on to
- Hold tightly
Hold onto
- Keep as long as possible
- Hold tightly
- Hold tightly
Hold out
- Resist
- Hold in front of you
Hold out against
- Try to reject
Hold out for
- Wait for something better or refuse something now for something better in the future
Hold out on
- Not pay someone or give them information
Hold over
- Delay
- To continue something for longer than planned
Hold together
- Not break up
Hold up
- Delay when travelling
- Rob with violence or threats thereof
Hold with
- Accept (usually negative)
Home in on
- Target
Hone in on
- Target, focus
Hook up
- Meet someone
Hook up to
- Connect to a machine
Horse around
- Not be serious
Hound out
- Force someone out of a place, job, position, etc.
Hunker down
- Settle in a place as comfortably as possible to stay there
Hunt down
- Search for someone to punish or kill them
Hunt out
- Search until you find something
Hunt up
- Search for and manage to find something
Iron out
- Remove small problems or irregularities
Issue forth
- Come out of a place
Jack around
- Make trouble for someone, fail to keep promises
Jack in
- Quit, give up
Jack off
- Masturbate
Jack up
- Raise a car to be able to do mechanical work
- Inject illegal drugs
- Increase sharply
Jam on
- Apply or operate something forcefully
Jaw away
- Talk just for the point of talking rather than having anything to say
Jazz up
- Make something more interesting or attractive
Joke around
- Be funny, or try to
Jot down
- Make a quick note
Juice up
- Make something more exciting or perform better
Jump at
- Accept eagerly
Jump in
- Enter a conversation
Jump on
- Criticize, attack
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