Monthly Archives: July 2013
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Phrasal verbs: grow out of, grow into, hand down
- grow out of something
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: get too big for
Example: Babies grow out of clothing so quickly! - grow into something
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: grow big enough to fit
Example: These pants are too big for him now, but he’ll grow into them soon. - Hand something down
Transitive, Intransitive, Separable
Meaning: give something used to someone
Example: My mom saved some things to hand down to my sisters and I.
When I was a child I never had new clothes because I was the youngest and my mom would wait for my older sisters to grow out of their clothes so that she could hand down the clothes to me and I could grow into them.
Phrasal verb: fall apart
- fall apart
Intransitive
Meaning: break into pieces
Example: My new soccer cleats fell apart after just a few games!
Slang: the big cheese
Idioms of the day
Are you a couch potato?
Phrasal verb: go out
- go out
Intransitive
Meaning: leave home and go to a social event
Example: It’s Friday night. Let’s go out!How many nights a week do you go out?
- go out with someone
Transitive, Inseparable
Meaning: date
Example: She has been going out with him since last year.
In the United States, it is normal for a couple to go out with one another for 2-3 years before getting married. Is it the same in your native country?