Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 20 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 20 (English)
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To hold still: not to move.
   
To break the news: to deliver new, usually upsetting, information.
   
To be the matter: to be unsatisfactory, to be improper, to be wrong. In a question, this idiom is used with ‘what’ or ‘something’. I an answer, ‘something’ or ‘nothing’ is usually used.
   
To bring up: to rear, to raise from childhood; to mention, to raise an issue, to introduce a topic.
   
To get lost: to become lost; to go away in order not to bother. The second definition provides a very informal, even rude, meaning that should be used only with close friends. It is usually used in a joking manner.
   
To hold up: to delay, to make late; to remain high in quality; to rob.
   
To run away: to leave without permission, to escape.
   
To rule out: to refuse to consider, to eliminate.
   
By far: by a great margin, clearly.
   
To see off: to say good-bye upon departure by train, airplane, bus, etc. (also: to send off). A noun or pronoun must divide the idiom.
   
To see out: to accompany a person out of a house, building, etc. A noun or pronoun must again divide the idiom.
   
No wonder: it’s no surprise that, not surprisingly. This idiom derives from reducing ‘it is no wonder that’.
   
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