English phrasal verbs

hold of somebody
to communicate with someone get ahold of somebody He said he planned to call Mom this week, so I thought he`d get hold of her sooner or later.

Break-even (or break even) is the point of balance between making either a profit or a loss.
make it up to sb
to do something good for someone you have upset, in order to become friends with them again:
run across something
to cross something while running
Phrasal Verbs:
go about
To set about to do; undertake: Go about your chores in a responsible way.
go along
To cooperate: They get along by going along.
go around
1. To satisfy a demand or requirement: just enough food to go around.
2. To go here and there; move from place to place.
3. To have currency: rumors going around.
go at
1. To attack, especially with energy.
2. To approach; undertake: He went at the job with a lot of energy.
go by
1. To elapse; pass: as time goes by.
2. To pay a short visit: My parents were away when we went by last week.
go down
1.
a. To drop below the horizon; set: The sun went down.
b. To fall to the ground: The helicopter went down in a ball of fire.
c. To sink: The torpedoed battleship went down.
d. To experience defeat or ruin.
2. To admit of easy swallowing: a cough syrup that goes down readily.
3. To decrease in cost or value.
4. Chiefly British To leave a university.
5. Slang To occur; happen: "a collection of memorable pieces about the general craziness that was going down in those days" (James Atlas).
6.
a. To be accepted or tolerated: How will your ideas go down as far as corporate marketing is concerned?
b. To come to be remembered in posterity: a debate that will go down as a turning point in the campaign.
7. Vulgar Slang To perform fellatio or cunnilingus.
go for
1. Informal To have a special liking for: I really go for progressive jazz.
2. To attack: an opponent who is known to go for the jugular in arguments.
3. To pass for or serve as: a couch that also goes for a bed.
go in
1. To take part in a cooperative venture: went in with the others to buy a present.
2. To make an approach, as before an attack: Troops went in at dawn.
go into
1. To discuss or investigate: The book goes into classical mythology.
2. To undertake as a profession or course of study: She`s going into medicine.
go off
1. To undergo detonation; explode.
2. To make a noise; sound: The siren went off at noon.
3. To leave: Don`t go off mad.
4. Informal To adhere to the expected course of events or the expected plan: The project went off smoothly.
go on
1. To take place; happen: didn`t know what was going on.
2.
a. To continue: Life must go on.
b. To keep on doing (something): Don`t go on talking.
c. To proceed: She went on to become a senator.
3. Informal To talk volubly: My, you do go on.
go out
1. To become extinguished.
2.
a. To go outdoors; leave one`s residence: He went out at seven.
b. To take part in social life outside the home: goes out a lot.
3. To become unfashionable: High boots went out last year.
4. To undergo structural collapse: The bridge went out.
go over
1. To gain acceptance or approval: a new style that didn`t go over.
2. To examine or review: go over the test scores.
go through
1. To examine carefully: went through the students` papers.
2. To experience: We went through hell while working on this project.
3. To perform: I went through the sonata in 30 minutes.
go under
1. To suffer defeat or destruction; fail.
2. To lose consciousness.
go up
1. To increase in price or value.
2. To be in the process of construction: Office buildings went up all over town.
3. Chiefly British To go to a university.
go with
1. To date (someone) regularly.
2. To select or choose: decided to go with the pink wallpaper.
Idioms:
from the word go
From the very beginning.
go all the way
Slang To have sexual intercourse.
go back on
To fail