To freshen up is to quickly wash yourself so that you feel cleaner, fresher and more comfortable Examples of use: 1. There’s a hotel and restaurant about ten miles away. We can stop there, and freshen up and have a meal. 2. I’ve been digging the garden all day. I need to freshen up before… Continue reading Freshen up – English Phrasal Verb – Online English Lessons

If a place or person is snowed in it means there is so much snow that it’s impossible to leave or travel anywhere. Example of use: ‘Last winter so much snow fell that we were snowed in for three days. I couldn’t get to work, and the children couldn’t go to school.’ Image by babasteve… Continue reading Phrasal Verb: snowed in

When somebody (or something) warms up they become warmer. Examples of use: 1. Winter is over and the weather is warming up. 2. You look cold. Come inside and warm up beside the fire. To warm up somebody or something (or warm somebody, or something, up) is to make them become warmer. Examples of use:… Continue reading Exercise | online-english-lessons.eu

If someone answers back (or answers someone back), they reply rudely to someone they should be polite and respectful to. Examples of use: 1. Don’t answer your mother back! 2. (Mother to a child) Don’t answer me back when I’m talking to you! 3. The children are always polite and never answer their teacher back.… Continue reading Answer back – English Phrasal Verb – Online English Lessons

To phish for something is to secretly and dishonestly get information such as credit card details, usernames and login details by using fake websites and emails. Examples of use: a) Fake toolbars phish for personal details on Facebook. b) Thieves phish for bank card details. c) He was caught phishing for financial information, and went… Continue reading Computers | online-english-lessons.eu

1. To hush up something (or hush something up) is to try to prevent information or facts from being revealed to other people. If someone (usually someone in authority) hushes up something, they try to prevent other people knowing about it. Examples of use: a) The government tried to hush up the mistake. b) He… Continue reading Talking | online-english-lessons.eu

To fool around is to have fun, or to behave in a very silly way. Example of use: Will you tell the children to stop fooling around and do their homework, please? infinitive – fool around present simple – fool around and fools around -ing form – fooling around past simple – fooled around past… Continue reading Phrasal Verb: fool around

The phrasal verb ‘rain off‘ is usually used in the passive – ‘rained off‘. If an outside event or activity is rained off it cannot start, or it has to be stopped, because it is raining. British English. In American English, the phrasal verb with the same meaning as rain off is rain out. Examples… Continue reading Rained off – English Phrasal Verb – Online English Lessons

To wait around, or wait about (British English), is to stay in one place without doing anything, while you are waiting for something to happen or someone to arrive. Examples of use: 1. I waited around for my bus for half an hour and then decided to walk. 2. We waited around all day for… Continue reading Wait around – English Phrasal Verb – Online English Lessons

If you pile up something (or pile something up) you get more and more of it. This phrasal verb is often used when talking about something that has become unpleasant because there is so much of it; for example, work that needs doing, letters or emails that need replies, or bills that need paying. Examples… Continue reading Phrasal Verb: pile up