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C1 phrasal verbs and idiomatic phrases

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