Pack away
- Put something where it belongs
Pack in
- Stop doing something
- End a relationship
- Fill a venue
- Break down, stop working
Pack it in
- Stop doing something (used as an imperative)
Pack off
- Send someone away
Pack out
- Fill a venue
Pack up
- Stop doing something
- Finish work
- Break down, stop working
- Collect things and put them where you keeep them
Palm off
- Get someone to accept something that isn't true
- Pretent something is better than it is iin order to sell it
Pan out
- The way a situation develops
Paper over
- Try to conceal a problem without really fixing it
Pass around
- Give out to everybody there
Pass as
- Be believed to be something
Pass away
- Die
Pass by
- Go past without stopping
- Visit briefly
- Miss an opportunity
Pass for
- Be accepted as something, usually when not
Pass off
- Convince something that something is real
- Happen in a certain way
Pass on
- Give a message to someone
- Decline an invitation or opportunity
- Die
Pass out
- Faint, lose consciousness
Pass over
- Ignore someone and give a job, reward, etc, to someone more junior
Pass through
- Visit a place without stopping or only stopping briefly
Pass to
- Give ownership or responsibility to someone
Pass up
- Decline a chance
Patch up
- Fix or make things better
Pay back
- Repay money borrowed
- Take revenge on
Pay for
- Purchase
Pay into
- Deposit money
Pay off
- Completely repay a debt
- Produce a profitable or successful result
Peck at
- Eat very small amounts
Peg away
- Keep working at something
Peg down
- Fasten something to the ground
Peg it
- Die
Peg out
- Put washing outside to dry
- Die
Pencil in
- Make a provisional appointment
Perk up
- Feel better or happier, make someone feel better or happier
Peter out
- Lose impetus and stop
Phase in
- Introduce gradually
Phase out
- Remove gradually
Pick at
- Eat unwillingly
Pick off
- Target individuals to change a group
Pick out
- Choose
- Identify from a picture
Pick up
- Improve
- Learn quickly
Pig off
- Used to tell someone to get lost or leave you alone
Pig out
- Eat a lot
Pile up
- Accumulate
Pin down
- Get a fixed idea, opinion, etc, from someone.
Pine away
- Suffer physically because of grief, stress, worry, etc
Pipe down
- Be quiet (often as an imperative)
Pipe up
- To speak, raise your voice
Pitch in
- Work together to help achieve an objective
Play along
- Pretend to agree or accept something in order to keep someone happy or to get more information
Play around
- Be silly
Play at
- Pretend to be something
Play away
- Be sexually unfaithful when away from home
Play back
- Listen to or watch something you've recorded
Play down
- Try to make something seem less important
Play off
- Play a game to decide who the winner is
- Make people compete against each other so that you benefit
Play on
- Continue playing a sport though there might be a reason to stop
- Continue playing music
- Exploit a weakness
- Pun
Play out
- Progress, often till it finishes
- Pretend that something is real and reduce its effect
- Play something to the end
Play up
- Behave badly
Play up to
- Flatter someone
Play upon
- Exploit a weakness
Play with
- Touch and move something to occupy your hands
- Not eat much of a meal
- Consider something, but not seriously
Plead out
- Plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine
Plug in
- Connect machines to the electricity supply
Plump for
- Choose
Point out
- Make someone aware of something
Polish off
- Finish, consume
Polish up
- Improve something quickly
Pop in
- Visit for a short time
Pop off
- Talk loudly, complain
- Go out for a short time
Pop out
- Go out for a short time
Pop up
- Appear, like windows and boxes opening on a computer screen.
- Appear unexpectedly
Potter about (around)
- Spend time doing little things for pleasure
Pour down
- Rain hard
Pour forth
- Emerge from a place in large numbers
Prattle on
- Talk too much
Press ahead
- Continue with something
Press on
- Continue with something
Price up
- Charge more for something
Print out
- Make a hard copy of a computer document
Prop up
- Support something, both physically and financially, politically, etc.
Psych out
- Work out or anticipate someone's intentions
- Make someone less confident
Psych up
- Prepare someone mentally
Pull ahead
- Overtake, move in front
Pull apart
- Destroy an argument, theory, etc
- Stop people or animals fighting
- Make someone unhappy or upset
Pull away
- When a vehicle moves from a place
Pull down
- Demolish
Pull in
- When a train arrives at a station
- Attract
- Stop a car by the side off the road
Pull off
- Manage to do something difficult or tricky
Pull on
- Put clothes on
Pull over
- Stop by the side of the road
Pull up
- Slow and stop a car
- Inform someone that they are wrong
Push in
- Get in a queue without waiting
Put away
- Put something back in the correct place
- Put someone in prison
Put back
- Rearrange something for a later time
Put by
- Save for the future
Put down
- Kill an animal because it's old, ill, etc.
Put in
- Install
Put in for
- Make a request
Put off
- Postpone
- Stop liking something or somebody
Put on
- Get fat
Put out
- Broadcast
- Disturb or trouble someone
- Extinguish a cigarette, fire, etc.
Put through
- Connect someone by phone
Put towards
- Make a financial contribution
Put up
- Allow someone to stay at your house for a night or a few days.
- Increase prices, taxes, duties, etc.
Put up with
- Tolerate
Quieten down
- Fall silent
Rack up
- Acquire a lot of something
Rain down on
- Fall in large numbers
Rake it in
- Make a lot of money
Rake up
- Bring something back to people's attention
Ramp up
- Increase price, speed or power of something
Rat on
- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise
Rat through
- Look for something hurriedly
Rat out
Ratchet up
- Increase
Rattle off
- Quote figures rapidly
Read off
- Read a list aloud for someone to write down
Read out
- Read aloud rather than silently
Read up on
- Research
Reckon on
- The minimum expected
Reel in
- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to
Reel off
- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other
Reel out
- Unwind
Rein in
- Control someone or comething to stop them causing more trouble
Ring back
- Return a phonecall
Ring off
- Finish a phone conversation
Ring up
- Telephone
Rip off
- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly
Roll back
- Retreat
- Reduce or remove
Roll in
- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles
Roll on
- When something continues to happen
Roll on!
- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future
Roll out
- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.
Roll up
- To appear in large numbers for an event
Roll up!
- An imperative used to attract people to a public event
Romp in
- Win easily
Romp through
- Do something easily or quickly
Room in
- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth
Root around
- Look in place to try to find something
Root for
- Support
Root out
- Look for and find
Root up
- Dig a plant out of the ground
Rope in
- Get somebody to help
Rough up
- Assault
Round off
- Finish something in a satisfactory manner
Row back
- Retreat from a position
Rub it in
- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse
Rule out
- Exclude a possibility
Run across
- Meet or find accidentally
Run away
- Escape from people chasing you
Run down
- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power
Run for
- Campaign for a position
Run into
- Cost
- Meet by accident
Run off
- Make photocopies
Run on
- Be powered by
Run out of
- Have none left
Run over
- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle
Run through
- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.
Rush into
- Do something too quickly
Sag off
- Not go to school or work, or leave early when you shouldn't
Sail into
- Criticise angrily
Sail through
- Pass easily, succeed
Sally forth
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Sally out
- Leave somewhere safe or comfortable
Salt away
- Save money
Save on
- Reduce or avoid consumption to cut costs
Save up
- For money for a particular purpose
- Collect or store something for future use
Scare away
- Frighten someone some much that they go away
Scare off
- Make someone so frightened that he or she away
Scrape along
- Manage with little money
Scrape by
- Just manage to pass something
Scrape in
- Just get enough to succeed, pass or be accepted
Scrape into
- Be accepted somewhere, but only just
Scrape through
- Pass a test but only just
Scrape together
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Scrape up
- Manage to collect enough of something you need, usually money
Screw around
- Waste time
Screw up
- Do badly or fail
See into
- Accompany someone into an office
See off
- Chase somebody or something away
- Go to the airport, station, etc., to say goodbye to someone
See out
- Accompany a guest to your front door when they are leaving your house
See through
- Continue with something to the end
- Realise someone is lying or being deceitful
See to
- Deal with something
Sell off
- Sell a business or part of it
- Sell something cheaply because you need the money or don't need it
Sell on
- Convince someone
- Buy something then sell it to someone else
Sell out
- Have no more of something left because it has been bought
- Lose all artistic integrity in return for commercial success
Sell up
- Sell a house or business to move somewhere or do something different
Send back
- Return something
Send for
- Ask someone to come and help
Send in
- Order people into a place to handle a problem
- Write to get information
Send off
- Expel a sports player from a match
- Post a letter
Send off for
- Order something by post
Send out
- Send something to a lot of people
Send out for
- Order takeaway food by phone
Set about
- Start doing something
Set aside
- Overturn a court verdict or decision
Set back
- Cost
Set forth
- State or outline an opinion
- Start a journey
Set in
- Change season noticeably
Set off
- Explode a bomb
- Ring an alarm
- Start a journey
- Counterbalance a debt
Set out
- Display, show
- Start a journey
Set up
- Prepare equipment, software, etc., for use
- Start a company
Settle down
- Start living a fixed and routine life
Settle for
- Accept whatever is available
Settle in
- Get used to
Settle on
- Agree
Settle up
- Pay a debt
Sex up
- Change information to make it more attractive to the reader or listener
Shack up
- Live with someone when you are in a relationship.
- Live somewhere temporarily
Shake down
- Search
- Extort or cheat money from someone
Shake off
- Get rid of an illness
Shell out
- Spend money on something, especially when you think it's too expensive
Shoot back
- Return quickly
Shoot off
- Leave promptly and quickly
Shoot out
- Go out for a short time
Shoot up
- Increase quickly
Shop around
- Look around for the best price, quality, etc.
Show around
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show in
- Take someone into an office or other room
Show off
- Behave in a way so as to attract attention
- Display something you are proud of
- Make the qualities of another thing more apparent
Show out
- Take someone to out of a room or building
Show over
- Take someone around a site
Show round
- Take someone to a place to show them certain parts
Show through
- When a feeling can be seen despite attempts to conceal it
Show up
- Attend something or arrive somewhere
- Become clear or apparent
- Make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed
Shut away
- Imprison or remove someone's freedom
Shut down
- Close a business, shop, etc.
- Turn a computer off
Shut in
- Prevent someone from leaving
Shut off
- Close, prevent access
Shut out
- Exclude
Shut out of
- Exclude someone from an activity, etc
Shut up
- Stop talking or making noise
- Close for a period of time
Shut yourself away
- Withdraw from company
Shy away from
- Avoid doing something because you lack confidence
Side with
- Support someone
Sift through
- Examine a lot of things carefully
Sign away
- Give away legal or property rights
Sign for
- Write a signature on behalf on someone
Sign in
- Register in a hotel
- Open a computer program that requires a name and password
- Write your name when entering a place
Sign into
- Open a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign off
- End a message
- Close a claim for unemployment benefit
- Stop doing something to leave
- Give someone a letter to be away from work
Sign on
- Open a claim for unemployment benefit
- Agree to participate
- Start broadcasting
- Employ
Sign on with
- Sign a document joining or agreeing to something
Sign out
- Close a computer program that requires a name and password
- Sign something to show you have borrowed something
Sign out of
- Close a particular computer program that requires a name and password
Sign up
- Give your name to do something
- Subscribe
Sign with
- Make a contract with
Sink in
- Slowly come to be understood
Sit about
- Sit and do nothing, especially when you should be working
Sit around
- Sit idly, doing nothing
Sit back
- Wait for something to happen without making any effort
- Relax in a chair
Sit by
- Not try to stop something
Sit down
- Help someone to sit
Sit for
- Pose for an artist or photographer
- Look after children while their parents are out
Sit in
- Occupy a building to protest about something
Sit in for
- Take on someone's responsibilities while they are absent
Sit in on
- Attend as an observer
Sit on
- Be on a committee
- To handle somebody firmly who behaves impertinently, conceitedly
- Hold information back or keep it secret
Sit out
- Not take part
Sit over
- Eat or drink slowly
Sit through
- Stay till the end of something dull
Sit with
- Reconcile different positions
Size up
- Assess a situation or person carefully.
- Make something bigger or produce bigger products
Skive off
- Avoid doing work or other duty
Slag off
- Criticise heavily
Sleep off
- Sleep in order to recover from excess alcohol, drugs, etc.
Sleep on
- Think about something
Sleep over
- Spend the night at someone else's house
Sleep through
- Not wake up
Slip out
- Leave discreetly
Slip up
- Make an error
Slope off
- Leave somewhere without letting others know
Slow down
- Reduced speed
Slow up
- Slow the progress of something
Smack of
- Appear to have a negative quality
Smash down
- Demolish or break something down
Smash in
- Break something by hitting it repeatedly
Smash up
- Destroy, break into many pieces
Snap off
- Break a piece off something
Snap up
- Get, acquire or buy something quickly
Sniff around
- Look around to see how good something is or to try to find something better
Sniff at
- Disapprove or be scornful
Sniff out
- Find something be smell (usually for dogs)
- Find out information, especially when people don't want anyone to know
Sober up
- Stop showing the effects of alcohol or drugs
Soldier on
- Continue even when things get difficult
Sort out
- Resolve a problem
Sound off
- To express your opinions forcefully
Sound out
- Check what someone thinks about an issue, idea, etc.
Spark off
- Cause something, usually unpleasant, to happen
Spark up
- Light a cigarette or joint
Speak out
- Talk openly and freely
Speak up
- Talk more loudly
Spell out
- Explain something in great detail
Spit it out
- An informal way of telling someone to say something they are unwilling to say
Spit out
- Say something angrily
Split up
- Divide into groups
- Finish a relationship
Spur on
- Encourage someone to continue
Squeeze up
- Get more people into a space than normal or comfortable
Stamp out
- Get rid of something
Stand about (around)
- Spend time in a place waiting or doing nothing or very little
Stand aside
- Leave a position so that someone else can take it
Stand back
- Keep a distance from something
- Try to understand something by taking a different perspective
Stand by
- Support someone
- Be ready and waiting for something to happen
Stand down
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take it
- Finish being asked questions in a court
Stand for
- Accept or tolerate behaviour
- The words represented by certain initials
Stand in for
- Substitute someone temporarily
Stand out
- Be extraordinary and different
Stand up
- Move from a sitting or lying down to a vertical position
Stand up for
- Defend, support
Stand up to
- Keep your principles when challenged by an authority
- Resist damage
Start off
- Make something start
- Begin life, a career or existence
- Begin a journey
- Make someone laugh
Start off on
- Help someone to start a piece or work or activity
Start on
- Begin to use or consume
- Criticise angrily
Start on at
- Criticise or nag
Start out
- Begin a journey
Start out as
- Begin life, existence or a career
Start out to
- Intend, plan
Start over
- Begin something again
Start up
- Open a business
- Begin, especially sounds
- When an engine starts working
- Make an engine work
- Sit or stand upright because someone has surprised you
Stay in
- Not go out
Stay on
- Remain longer than anticipated
Stay out
- Not go home
Stay over
- Stay overnight
Stay up
- Not go to bed
Steer clear of
- Avoid
Step aside
- Leave a job or position so that someone else can take over
Step back
- Look at something from a different perspective
Step down
- Leave a job or position so that someone can take over
Step forward
- Offer help
Step in
- Get involved by interrupting something
Step on it
- An imperative used to tell someone to go faster, especially when driving
Step out
- Leave a place for a very short time
Step up
- Increase
Stick it to
- Criticise someone
Stick to
- Not change
Stick up for
- Support or defend
Stir up
- Make trouble for someone else
Stitch up
- Sew something so that it is closed
- Finalise a deal
- Cheat someone or make them look guilty when they aren't
Stop around (round)
- Visit someone for a short time.
Stop back
- Return somewhere
Stop behind
- Stay somewhere when other people leave
Stop by
- Visit somewhere briefly or quickly
Stop in
- Stay at home
- Visit briefly
Stop off
- Break a journey
Stop out
- Be out late, especially when you are expected home
Stop over
- Stay somewhere when on a journey
Stop up
- Stay up late
- Fill or block something
Storm off
- Leave a place angrily
Storm out
- Leave a place angrily
String along
- Deceive someone for a long time
- Accompany someone because you haven't got anything better to do
String out
- Make something last as long as possible
String together
- Put words together into a coherent text
String up
- Hang somebody
Stub out
- Extinguish a cigarette
Stumble across
- Find something accidentally
Stumble upon
- Find something accidentally
Stump up
- Pay for something
Suck in
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck into
- Become involved in something unpleasant
Suck up to
- Ingratiate yourself with someone
Sum up
- Summarise
Summon up
- Get the energy or courage to do something
Suss out
- Come to understand
Swear by
- Have great confidence in
Sweep through
- Pass easily, succeed
- Move quickly through
Syphon off
- Take business, support or votes from someone
- Divert money illegally
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