Category Archives: Phrasal Expressions (English)

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 21 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 21 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   To go up: to increase; to be constructed, to be erected. The second definition is the same as the one for ‘to put up’ in Lesson 19, except that ‘to go up’ is not used […]

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 20 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 20 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   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 […]

Phrasal Expressions – Lesson 19 (English)

Phrasal Expressions : Lesson 19 (English)   -Read the following and test your understanding by taking the quiz below   To bite off: to accept as a responsibility or task. This idiom is often used when one accepts more responsibility than one can handle alone. It is usually used in the form ‘to bite off […]