Angielski - Phrasal verbs

 

 

Spis treści

A - B , C-E , F-J , K- O, P-S , T- Z

 

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

Gloss over

- 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