{"id":234,"date":"2013-02-28T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=234"},"modified":"2013-02-28T02:53:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:53:22","slug":"phrasal-verb-hang-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verb: hang out"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><b><\/b><strong>hang out <\/strong><i>(with someone)<br \/>\nIntransitive<br \/>\n<\/i><strong>Meaning: <\/strong>spend time relaxing (informal)<br \/>\n<strong>Example: <\/strong>Let\u2019s <strong>hang out<\/strong> at my apartment tonight.\u00a0 We can order some food and watch a movie.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The following is a funny article from <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Onion<\/span>, a satirical publication in the United States:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/hanging-out-continues-to-grow-in-popularity-among,1800\/<\/p>\n<p>There are <strong>a lot of<\/strong> phrasal verbs and slang in the article!\u00a0 Do you know what they all mean?<\/p>\n<p><i>buckle down:<\/i> to concentrate on a task with determination<\/p>\n<p><i>shape up:<\/i> to improve<\/p>\n<p><i>goof off:<\/i> to joke around or misbehave<\/p>\n<p><i>kick back:<\/i> to relax<\/p>\n<p><i>screw\/mess around:<\/i> to joke around or misbehave<\/p>\n<p><i>hook up:<\/i> to become romantically or sexually involved with someone<\/p>\n<p><i>flip out:<\/i> to panic<\/p>\n<p><i>get down<\/i>: to lose one\u2019s inhibitions\u2014to enjoy oneself<\/p>\n<p><i>jam away:<\/i> to listen to or play music in a spontaneous way<\/p>\n<p><i>take up:<\/i> to join a new activity<\/p>\n<p><i>straighten tight:<\/i> to set priorities<\/p>\n<p><i>bust forward: <\/i>to move forward towards a goal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hang out (with someone) Intransitive Meaning: spend time relaxing (informal) Example: Let\u2019s hang out at my apartment tonight.\u00a0 We can order some food and watch a movie. The following is a funny article from The Onion, a satirical publication in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/?p=234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.teacherdiane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}