Category Archives: Phrasal Expressions (English)

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 24 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 24 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   To knock out: to make unconscious. The noun form ‘knockout’ derives from this idiom.     To knock oneself out: to work very hard (sometimes too hard) to do something. A reflexive pronoun must divide […]

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 23 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 23 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   To make do: to manage, to cope. This idiom is used when a person must accept a substitute that is not the most suitable.     To give birth to: to bear a human being […]

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 22 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 22 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   To stop by: to visit or stop somewhere briefly (also: to drop by, to drop in on). ‘To drop by’ and ‘to drop in on’ are used for visits that are unplanned or unexpected.   […]