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centre around : if something centres around someone or something, or if you centre something

around them, they are its main subject of attention or interest

Eg: The  debate  centred  around the  issue  of  finance.

2.get into : to start enjoying something, or to become enthusiastic about it

Eg - You  feel  shy  when you  start  your  speech, but then you get into it.

- She’s  really  getting  into the Internet.

3. Go in for :
- to enjoy a particular thing or activity
Eg : I don’t go in for  golf  much.
- to explode, or to be 
Eg : The  gun  went off while he was  cleaning  it.

  - if something such as a light or an electricity supply goes off, it stops working or

being available

Eg : All the  lights  in the  building  suddenly  went off.

  - (go off someone/something) to stop liking someone or something

Eg I went off the  idea  of  buying  a  sports  car  after I found out how much it would  cost.

- to leave a place, especially for a particular purpose

4. Go off

- go off to do something: 

Eg He went off to have  lunch  in the  canteen  at one o’clock.

Dave’s  gone  off to the  south  of France for the  summer.

-  to start making a noise as a signal or warning

eg I was  just  lying  in  bed  waiting  for the  alarm  to go off.

- TO become worse in quality
 EG IF food or drink goes off, it is no longer fresh

His  work  has  really  gone  off  recently.

- to happen in a particular way

eg The whole  conference  went off  just  as we had  planned

- start to sleep

eg (go off to sleep)

The  baby’s  just  gone  off to  sleep.

- To suddenly become angry and start shouting

eg ( go off on)

He  just  went off on her for no  apparent  reason.

5.Grow on
- if something or someone grows on you, you start to like them more

Eg The  new  house  slowly  began  to  grow  on her.

6. Hang out
- to lean out of a window so that the top part of your body is outside

EG Two  students  were  hanging  out of the  second  floor  window.

- spend time with particular people in a place

Eg She  knew  all the  clubs  where he  usually  hung  out.

7. Keep up
- to continue to do something

Eg We’re on a  winning  streak  –  hopefully  we can keep it up.

The  trade  unions  continued  to keep up  pressure  for  higher  wages.
8. laze around = laze
- relax and enjoy yourself

Eg Your  children  shouldn’t be  lazing  around  indoors  on such a  nice  day.

9. pick up

1. lift someone/something

- She  rushed  to  pick  up the  baby  as  soon  as it  started  to cry.
- I’ve already  asked  them to  pick  their  toys  up.

2. take someone in vehicle

- Will you  pick  me up after the  party?

3. learn/do something new

- She  picked  up a few German  phrases  while  staying  in Berlin.

4. get an illness

- Most  tourists  are  worried  that they’ll  pick  up a  nasty  stomach  bug.

5. buy something a  market  where you can  pick  up some  amazing  bargains
6. notice something

- The  dogs  must have  picked  up his  scent.

7. start something after a pause

- We’ll  pick  up this  conversation  when I come back.

8. improve

- They  won’t  let  him out of  hospital  until his  health  has  picked  up  quite  a  lot.

9. receive electronic signal

- I don’t  think  this thing can  pick  up  foreign  stations.

10. of sexual relationship

- She went  home  with some man she  picked  up in a  bar.

 11. earn money the  huge  salaries  that  footballers  pick  up these  days
12. win a prize

- The  film  is  tipped  to  pick  up at least three Oscars.

13. to pay for something
- Her  father  picks  up the  tab  for her  expensive  lifestyle.

10.Put In

1. give time/effort put in hours , days

2. make something ready to use put in a new kitchen
3. request/offer something officially put in a  bid  of $1  million  for the  company.
4. interrupt someone ‘Why don’t you  ask  them?’ he  suddenly  put in.
5. invest money To  start  up the  business, they each put in £50,000.
6. elect someone Labour  had been put in with a  large  majority.
7. give someone trust/responsibility You have to put your  faith  in the  pilot  when
you’re  flying.
8. ship: stop at a port if a ship puts in, it stops at a port

11.Seek out
- to find someone or something by looking for them in a determined way

Eg Corbett  resolved  to  seek  out the  truth.

12.Take in

1. include something
2. allow someone to stay
3. understand & remember something
4. make someone believe something false
5. make clothing narrower
6. accept something
7. look at something
8. do work for someone else
9. go to an event

13.take off

1. remove clothing etc

2. aircraft: start flying
3. become successful etc Her  business  has  really  taken  off.
 4. not go to work
5. leave suddenly
6. copy someone for fun

14.take out

1. remove something from pocket

2. take someone to a cinema etc
3. get something official from bank
4. kill or destroy someone/something
5. make clothing looser

15.warm up

1. make food/drink warm

2. become warm
3. prepare for something
4. make machine etc ready
5. become interesting/busy
6. make audience ready

PHRASES .PATTERNS AND COLLOCATIONS

1 Delight in
- to get a lot of pleasure or enjoyment from something

egHe  delights  in  corresponding  with his  old  students.

2 pick and choose

- to have the chance to choose the things that you prefer, rather than simply accepting what
someone gives you

eg We cannot  pick  and  choose  which  laws  to  obey.

3 decide on
- to choose someone or something from a number of possible choices

eg We  decided  on Spain for our  holiday  this  year.

4 Play sth by ear
to perform a piece of music by remembering what it sounds like, without looking at the notes

5 an acquired taste (=something that you must have many times before you start to like it): 

Eg Strong  black  coffee  is an  acquired  taste.

6 come to rest
- to finally stop moving
Eg The  vehicle  skidded  across the  road  before coming to rest against a  wall.

- if your eyes come to rest on someone or something, they look at that person or thing

and stop looking around at different people or things

eg Her  eyes  came to rest on the  handsome  man  sitting  opposite.

7 like mad
- very quickly and with great effort

eg We had to  work  like  mad to  finish  the  job  before the  weekend.

9if you are off sick or take time off sick, you do not go to work because you are ill

She’s been off  sick  for over a  week.