PHRASAL VERBS FOR FCE

Abide by - Accept or follow a decision or rule
Account for - To explain
Ache for - Want something or someone a lot
Act on - To take action because of something like information received - Affect
Act out - Perform something with actions and gestures. - Express an emotion in your behaviour
Act up - Behave badly or strangely
Act upon -To take action because of something like information received - Affect
Add on - Include in a calculation
Add up - To make a mathematical total - Be a satisfactory explanantion for something
Add up to - Have a certain result - Come to a certain amount or figure
Agree with - Affect- usually used in the negative to show that something has had a negative effect, especially is it makes you feel bad
Aim at - To target - Intend to achieve
Allow for - Include something in a plan or calculation
Allow of - Make possible, permit
Angle for - Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting
Answer back - To reply rudely to someone in authority
Answer for - Be held responsible for a problem - Speak on behalf of someone or from knowing them
Argue down - Beat someone in a debate, discussion or argument
- Persuade someone to drop the price of something they`re selling - Try to persuade people not to accept a proposition, motion, etc
Argue out - Argue about a problem to find a solution
Ask about -Ask how someone is doing, especially professionally and in terms of health
Ask after - Enquire about someone`s health, how life is going
Ask around - Ask a number of people for information of help - Invite someone
Ask for - To provoke a negative reaction - Request to have or be given
Ask in - To invite somebody into your house
Ask out - To invite someone for a date
Ask over - Invite
Ask round - Invite someone
Auction off - Sell something in an auction
Back away - Retreat or go backwards
Back down - Retract or withdraw your position or proposal in an argument
Back into - Enter a parking area in reverse gear
Back off - Retreat
Back out - Fail to keep an arrangement or promise
Back out of - Fail to keep an agreement, arrangement - Exit a parking area in reverse gear
Back up - Make a copy of computer data - Support - Drive a vehicle backwards
Bag out - Criticise
Bail out - Save, rescue - Remove water from something that is flooded - Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash
Bail out of - Pay a bond to release someone from jail
Bail out on - Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble
Bail up - Talk to someone and delay them - Rob someone at gunpoint
Ball up - Confuse or make things complicated - Roll or form into a round shape
Balls up - Spoil, ruin
Bang about - Move in a place making a lot of noise
Bang around - Move in a place making a lot of noise
Bang on - Talk at great length
Bang on about - Keep talking about something
Bang out - Play a musical instrument loudly
Bang up - Put someone in prison - Damage badly
Bank on - Count or rely on
Bargain down - Persuade someone to drop the price of something they`re selling
Bargain for - Expect something to happen (usually negative)
Bargain on - Expect something to happen (usually negative)
Barge in - Enter a place and interrupt
Barge into - Enter a place and interrupt people rudely
Bash about - Mistreat physically
Bash in - Break, damage or injure by hitting
Bash out - Write something quickly without much preparation
Bash up - Break, damage or hurt by hitting
Bawl out - Scold, shout at someone - Scold - Sing or shout unpleasantly loudly
Be after - Try to find or get
Be along - Arrive
Be away - Be elsewhere; on holiday, etc.
Be cut out for - Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
Be cut up - Be upset
Be down - Be depressed - Be reduced or less
Be down on - Have negative feelings toward someone
Be down with - Be ill
Be fed up - Be bored, upset or sick of something
Be in - Be at home or at work - Be submitted, arrive
Be in on - Be involved in
Be not on - Be unacceptable
Be off - Be bad (of food) - Depart, leave
Be on - Be functioning (of machines) - Take place - Take medication or drugs, especially when they affect the person badly - Be at the top of one’s game, performing very well
Be on about - Mean, try to say
Be onto - Pursue, be aware of someone`s true nature
Be out - Be absent from a place
Be out of - Have no more left
Be out to - Attempt
Be snowed under - Have too much work
Be taken aback - Be shocked or surprised
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