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C1 phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrases

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  • If something is not equal to something else, then it...
    Rolls behind
    Sneaks behind
    Lags behind
    Creeps behind
  • Calm down!
    Pull yourself together!
    Pull your fingers over!
    Pull your thumbs up!
    Pull your hands apart!
  • To discover the solution to something
    Figure in
    Figure up
    Figure out
    Figure about
  • To have an affair!
    Cheat upon
    Cheat behind
    Cheat on
    Cheat beyond
  • A good thing that seemed bad at first
    A blessing in disguise
    A blessing in the stars
    A blessing in the clouds
    A blessing hidden in your soup
  • To give someone an unfriendly welcome
    Sharp tongue
    Cold shoulder
    Hard elbow
    Hot potato
  • If you do not commit to a position in an argument, you...
    Sit in the driveway
    Lie by the chair
    Stand by the door
    Sit on the fence
  • If something is based on fact, then it is...
    Grounded in fact
    Stacked on fact
    Born in fact
    Mounded in fact
  • To refuse someone or something
    Turn over
    Turn up
    Turn under
    Turn down
  • To concentrate on something
    Knuckle down
    Trickle into
    Listen by
    Buckle up
  • To gain employment is to be...
    Taken off by
    Taken up with
    Taken through something
    Taken on
  • Connected to a source
    Rooted in
    Earthed by
    Stemmed in
    Treed up
  • When you don't notice how much time has gone by because you're enjoying yourself...
    Time dies when you're having fun
    Time flies when you're having fun
    Time lies when you're having fun
    Time cries when you're having fun
  • To start doing something new or difficult
    Start on
    Embark on
    Commence on
    Begin on
  • To waste a skill, talent, or opportunity is to...
    Throw it before
    Throw it away
    Throw it up
    Throw it off
  • To revise something
    Go now and be free!
    Go over
    Go after
    Go under
  • To deliberately annoy someone
    Wind in
    Wind out
    Wind up
    Wind down
  • To be eager for something
    Be left for
    Be at for
    Be up for
    Be in for
  • To exhaust someone...
    Wear up
    Wear for
    Wear in
    Wear out
  • To get upset about something
    To get moulded into heat
    To get bent out of shape
    To get folded into steel
    To get broken out of shape
  • To yield to someone or something else
    Give door to
    Give way to
    Give path to
    Give room to
  • Don't give up
    Hang through it
    Hang about it
    Hang towards it
    Hang in there
  • When something gets out of control, it.....
    Get out of my house!
    Gets out of hand
    Gets out of sight
    Get out of mind
  • If you are not punished for doing something wrong, you....
    Get away with it
    Go through with it
    Make do with it
    Put up with it
  • To test or attempt
    Try out
    Try beside
    Try of
    Try before