Phrasal verbs about MONEY

Fork out: desembolsar

▪ Meaning: Is an informal way to say to spend a lot of money on something that you don’t want to
spend money on.

▪ Example: I had to fork out £900 to fix my car.

Rip off

▪ Meaning: Charge too much for something, for something to be overpriced. This can also be used
as a noun – to say something is a rip off.

▪ Example: £100 for that t-shirt?! You’re ripping me off! (Or that t-shirt is a rip off.)

Save up

▪ Meaning: To not spend money, to put it away somewhere for the future, maybe you have
something in mind you want to buy.

▪ Example: My parents are saving up to go on a cruise. I’m saving up to buy a new phone.

Pay off

▪ Meaning: To repay a debt, to finish paying off a debt or money that you owe someone.

▪ Example: Last month I finally paid off my mortgage. (A mortgage is a loan you get from the bank
to help you buy a house.)

Pay back

▪ Meaning: To repay, or to give back money that someone gave you, or lent you.

▪ Example: Please can I borrow £20? I’ll pay you back next week.

Splash out: derrochar

▪ Meaning: Buy something expensive, usually something that is not really necessary. You don’t
need it, you just want it!

▪ Example: I decided to splash out on a new designer jacket.

Run up (debt): acumular deudas

▪ Meaning: Create lots of debt, to borrow a lot of money.

▪ Example: I ran up a lot of debt on credit cards, I don’t know what to do!
Put aside (S)

Meaning: Similar to save up, it means to not spend money, to keep it for the future.

▪ Example: It’s important to put money aside for your retirement.

Come into: tener una entrada de dinero ( usualmente inesperada)

▪ Meaning: Means to suddenly receive money, often through inheritance. If someone in your
family dies and they leave you money.

▪ Example: He came into a fortune when his Aunt died.

Cut back on: to reduce your expenses

 Let’s cut back on some of those streaming services

 We need to cut back on grocery shopping – we’re spending too much

Get by: to survive financially – to be able to pay your expenses

 you can’t get by on $100 per week

 We’ll be fine. We’ll easily get by.

Go up and Go down: increase or decrease

 prices have gone up a lot recently

 do you think the price of this is going down soon?

Chip in: to contribute money to something

 Let’s all chip and get Mark a bottle of whiskey

 Can I chip in $10 for the present?

To tide over: To help a person or an institution with money for a limited time only.

 I will lend you £50 to tide you over until your next pay day.

Squirrel away

Meaning: Put something away in a secret place, especially money

 Example: The family had a large fortune squirrelled away.