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Pick up. If a business or social situation picks up, it improves.

Break up If people break up, they stop having


a relationship or stop workingtogether.
Call off to decide that a planned event or activity will
not happen because it is not possible, useful, or wanted now
turn down to reduce the level of sound or heat that a machine produces
mess about to waste time, often by doing things that are not important
split up If something splits or if you split it, it tears so that there is
a long, thin hole in it.
talk into to persuade someone to do or not do something
take after to be similar to an older member of your family
look after to take care of someone or something
by keeping them healthy or in a good condition
run into to meet someone you know when you are not expecting to
make up to say or write something that is not true
bright up to look after a child and teach them until they are old enough
to look after themselves
turn up to arrive
get on If two or more people get along, they like each other and
are friendly to each other.
put down to make
someone feel stupid or unimportant by criticizing them
let down to disappoint someone by not doing what you agreed to do
put up with to accept unpleasant behaviour or
an unpleasant situation, although you do not like it
put through to connect someone using a telephone to
the person they want to speak to
get over to begin to feel better after being unhappy or sick
put off to decide or arrange to do something at a later time
ask out to invite someone to come with you to a place such as
the cinemaor a restaurant, especially as a way
of starting a romanticrelationship:

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