Food and drink phrasal verbs

PHRASAL VERBS        MEANINGS

1.   to pick at --   eat small amounts
2.   cut out --   stop eating
3.   fill sb up --   make you feel that you’ve eaten enough
4.   wash down --   help you swallow sth
--   hold up your glass before drinking it in order to wish
5.   drink to sb or sth
someone success or happiness
6.   soak up --   absorb
7.   water down --   make it less strong by adding water or other liquid
8.   spill over --   flow over the edge

Exercise A:   Complete the sentences using the phrasal verbs above.

1.   Let’s raise a glass and ………………. the happy couple!

2.   Cook the lentils until they ………………. half the liquid.

3.   It’s better to have good big meals than just ………………. things all days.

4.   Have a drink of milk to ………………. the tablet.

5.   ………………. fry-ups and eat more salads – you’re bound to feel healthier.

6.   Neat whisky is very strong – you should ……………… it ……………….

7.   Harry darling, hold your juice properly. It’s ……………………. the edge of the glass.

8.   Eat lots of raw vegetables – they will ………. you ………. without making you put on weight.

Exercise B:   Read the conversation then answer the questions below.

ANN:   I enjoyed it, but I couldn’t eat one bit more.

LIZ:   We toasted Kevin and wished him well in his new job.

DAVID:   The smoked salmon made me feel unwell. I shouldn’t have eaten it.

GAVIN:   She gave me some sushi. It was the first time I’d ever tasted it.

JENNY:   I took a big slice of cake.

1.   Who ate something that didn’t agree with them?

2.   Who helped themselves to something?

3.   Who ate something that filled them up?

4.   Who was served up something new?

5.   Who drank to someone?

 PHRASAL VERBS MEANING EXAMPLE

Come down in a large Lying in bed I could hear the rain

1.   BEAT DOWN
amount with force beating down

2.   PELT DOWN Informal:   Fall heavily The rain was pelting down by the time
we got home

As soon as we had left the shelter of the

3.   COME ON Start
forest, the rain came on

Not start, although you Fortunately the snow held off until we
4.   HOLD OFF
expect it to had got home safely

5.   FREEZE UP Become blocked with ice It was very hard winter last year and
and stop working many people had problems with pipes
freezing up

PHRASAL VERBS MEANING

6.   BREAK THROUGH If the sun breaks through (the clouds), it starts to appear
from behind the clouds

7.   BEAT DOWN If the sun beats down, it shines very strongly and makes
the air hot

8.   ROLL IN If some kind of bad weather such as clouds or fog rolls in, it
appears in a large amount

9.   BLOT OUT If clouds or smoke blots out the sun, it covers it and
prevents it from being seen

10.   FOG/MIST/STEAM UP If windows or glasses fog/mist/steam up, they become

covered with small drops of water and you can't see through
them

Exercise:   Complete the sentences using the right form of the phrasal verbs above.

1.   The sun __________ on the hikers

2.   It was such a sad film. When the hero died I could feel my eyes __________.

3.   Whenever I go from a cold street into a heated shop my glasses __________.

4.   I can see a little bit of blue sky. I think the sun is trying to __________.

5.   We're going to an open air concert tonight. I hope the rain __________.

6.   I think the weather's changing for the worse. Look at those clouds __________.

7.   Don't worry about your driving test. I'm sure you'll __________.

8.   I always get really nervous before oral exams. I'm afraid I'll __________.

Travel phrasal verbs

a. Drop off -  to take someone to a place and leave them there
b. Check in  - to register at a hotel
c. Check out - to leave and pay for your stay at a hotel
d. Pick up - to go and fetch someone from a place and take them somewhere else
e. Set out - to start a journey
f. Take off - when a plane leaves and begins to fly
g. Get in - when a plane arrives on an airport
h. Get away - to leave to go somewhere for a break or holiday
i. Get on - to climb on board
j. Speed up - to increase speed
k. Look around - to explore what is near you, in your area
l. Hurry up - to rush and not waste time
m. Go back - to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye
n. See off - to go the place someone is leaving from to say goodbye
o. Look forward - to look forward to something that is going to happen in the future

Summer break in the USA

The day I left for the USA my family (1)___ me___. We had breakfast on the airport but we had to (2)___
so that I wouldn't miss my flight. It was a teary goodbye, but I was (3)___ to new experiences in the USA.
After I (4)___ the plane I made myself comfortable and sent a few last minute goodbye text messages. I
thought of how much I wanted this holiday and that I just needed to (5)___ from it all. A short while later
the pilot announced that all electronics were to be switched off, for we were preparing to (6)___. As the
plane was (7)___ on the runway I sat back and took pleasure in brute force and strength of the momentum
the plane was creating to lift itself up from the ground.

When our plane (8)___ at JFK Airport in New York there was already a taxi waiting to (9)___ me ___. The
taxi (10)___ me ___ at the Holiday Inn where I would meet up with my friends. After I (11)___  to the hotel
we all went to Time Square, where we (12)___ for the rest of the day. The next day we got up in the early
hours of the morning and did some sightseeing. That night we were exhausted and went to bed early. The
next morning we (13) ___ after breakfast, rented a car and (14)___ on a cross-country road trip. It would be
another 3 months before I would (15)___ home.