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Phrasal verbs

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  • make off
    to hurry away, especially in order to escape
  • break out of st
    to escape from a place or situation
  • get away with st
    to do something wrong and not be punished for it
  • own up to st
    to admit that you are responsible for something bad or wrong
  • come forward
    to offer your help/service
  • show off
    to try to impress others by talking about your abilities, possessions, etc.
  • find out
    to discover/hear about st
  • break into
    to enter a building by force; to open a car, etc. by force
  • look into st
    to examine something/ to investigate
  • Back down on st
    to admit defeat/ to take back a demand, an opinion, etc. that other people are strongly opposed to
  • let sb off
    to not punish somebody for something they have done wrong, to give them only a light punishment
  • take in
    to make somebody believe something that is not true
  • make up something
    to invent a story, etc., especially in order to trick or entertain somebody
  • go off
    to be fired; to explode
  • make up for
    to do something that corrects a bad situation