 | BACK OUT | If you back out from our contract, you will have to pay money to the firm. |  |
 | BE ABOVE | You should be above all anger. |  |
 | BE ON TOP OF THE WORLD | I am on top of the world. I feel so great! |  |
 | BEAT ABOUT THE BUSH | Don't beat about the bush, come straight to the point. |  |
 | BLOW UP | The soldiers blew up the house. |  |
 | BOSS AROUND | He is just bossing everybody around. Nobody likes him. |  |
 | BREAK UP | John and Alice broke up last month. |  |
 | BRING UP | I was brought up to respect the law. |  |
 | BRUSH UP | I should brush up my French before I go to Paris. |  |
 | CALL OFF | The workers have called off the strike |  |
 | CALM DOWN | Calm down, there's nothing to worry about. |  |
 | CATCH ON | I don't think this new fashion will catch on. It looks too strange! |  |
 | CHEAT ON | She has been cheating on me while I've been away. |  |
 | COME ACROSS | I came across this book under your bed. |  |
 | COME TRUE | My dream has come true. |  |
 | COME UP | I'm sorry. Something has come up. I have to cancel our meeting. |  |
 | COUNT DOWN | The spaceship is already being counted down. |  |
 | COUNT ON | You can always count on Bob, he will never fail you. |  |
 | COVER UP | Are the governments of the world covering up the truth about UFOs? |  |
 | CUT ACROSS | I got here early by cutting across the field. |  |
 | CUT DOWN | The factory's production has been cut down. |  |
 | DIE HARD | Energy crisis shows that old habits die hard. |  |
 | DO AWAY WITH | Our company has decided to do away with the old machinery. |  |
 | DO WITHOUT | The director cannot do without a secretary. |  |
 | DOLL UP | Jane dolled herself up for the party. |  |
 | DOZE OFF | Did our boss notice that I dozed off in the middle of his speech? |  |
 | DRIFT APART | After twelve years of marriage, the two people began to drift apart. |  |
 | FALL BEHIND | Your work has fallen behind that of the other students!!! |  |
 | FEEL BLUE | I often feel blue when it rains. |  |
 | GET ACROSS | Did you get your message across? |  |
 | GET AROUND TO | I should be able to get around to that job next week. |  |
 | GET CARRIED AWAY | She got carried away while watching a soap opera. |  |
 | GET EVEN | I'd like to get even with the man who damaged my car. |  |
 | GET RID OF | I don't know how to get rid of door-to-door missionaries. |  |
 | GIVE AWAY | Don't give away the ending of the story, it will spoil it. |  |
 | GO AGAINST | You should never go against your client |  |
 | GO FOR | Go for it before it's too late! |  |
 | HANG AROUND | Don't hang around; we have a train to catch. |  |
 | HANG UP | Don't hang up! I haven't finished talking to you. |  |
 | HIDE OUT | You'd better hide out here until the police have stopped trying to catch you. |  |
 | HOLD AGAINST | What do you actually hold against him? |  |
 | HOOK UP | Angelina and Brad hooked up in Morocco. |  |
 | HOUND OUT | When his employers learned about his past, they hounded him out. |  |
 | KICK OFF | The theatre company will kick off the season with a production of 'Jesus Christ Superstar'. |  |
 | KICK OUT | If the new actor is not good, kick him out. |  |
 | KISS UP TO | You should think of some ways to kiss up to your boss. |  |
 | LEAVE OUT | The organizer has left Bobby out of the team. |  |
 | LET DOWN | I was depending on him but he let me down. |  |
 | LET OUT | Mary had accidentally let out that her mother telephoned. |  |
 | LOOK DOWN ON | Women have grown tired of being looked down on by employers. |  |
 | LOOK INTO | The police are looking into the disappearance of your teacher. |  |
 | LOOK UP TO | Every child needs someone to look up to. |  |
 | MIX UP | My papers are all mixed up. |  |
 | PASS AWAY | I'm sorry to hear that your uncle passed away last week. |  |
 | PIN ON | Why did they pin the blame on me? I did not do it! |  |
 | PULL TOGETHER | We must all pull together if we want to win. |  |
 | PUT IN A NUTSHELL | Put in a nutshell, you've made a terrible mistake. |  |
 | PUT OFF | Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. |  |
 | RAKE UP | Lina doesn't want to rake up her past. |  |
 | RUN AFTER | All the boys are running after the sexy new student. |  |
 | RUN FOR | Mr.Smith announces plan to run for senator in N.Y. next year |  |
 | SEE OFF | All the parents were at the station, seeing their children off to school. |  |
 | SET OFF | John set off for work an hour ago. Hasn't he arrived yet? |  |
 | SHOW OFF | He visited us just to show off his new car. |  |
 | SLAVE AWAY | By slaving away for two hours, I at last got the carpet clean. |  |
 | STOP OVER | We need two days for the journey, stopping over at a small town on the way. |  |
 | TAKE AFTER | The boy takes after his mother. He has the same red hair and big blue eyes. |  |
 | TAKE OFF | Watch that bird taking off from the branch! |  |
 | TAKE UP | That big clock takes up too much space in the small hall. It will have to go. |  |
 | TALK BACK | Don't talk back to your mother when she is giving you advice. |  |
 | TELL APART | Jim and Jack are so much alike that their own mother can hardly tell them apart. |  |
 | TRACK DOWN | The doctors were able to track down the cause of the infection. |  |
 | TURN INTO | The city is turning into a meeting place for criminals. |  |
 | TURN UPSIDE DOWN | They turned the whole room upside down, but they didn't find the key. |  |
 | WARM UP | Let's sing a few exercises first to warm up. |  |
 | WIPE OUT | These tropical diseases can wipe out the populations of whole villages. |  |