1.

Account for – to explain or justify

2. Act up – to misbehave
3. Add up – to make sense; to be logical
4. Ask around – to ask many people the same question
5. Back up – to move backwards
6. Bail out – to provide financial assistance; to rescue
7. Bear out – to confirm or support
8. Blow up – to explode
9. Break down – to stop functioning; to fail
10. Break in – to wear something in; to make comfortable
11. Bring about – to cause to happen
12. Bring up – to raise a topic in conversation
13. Brush up on – to refresh or improve one’s knowledge
14. Buckle up – to fasten one’s seat belt
15. Burn out – to become exhausted or to make something
unusable due to overuse
16. Call off – to cancel; to decide that something will not
happen
17. Calm down – to become less agitated; to relax
18. Carry on – to continue with an activity
19. Catch on – to understand; to become popular or fashionable
20. Check in – to register at a hotel or airport
21. Check out – to investigate; to leave a hotel or store after
paying
22. Cheer up – to become happier or to make someone else feel
happier
23. Clean up – to tidy or to make clean
24. Clear out – to remove things; to leave a place quickly
25. Come across – to find or discover by chance
26. Come down with – to become ill with a disease or sickness
27. Count on – to rely on; to trust
28. Cross out – to delete or remove from a list
29. Cut back – to reduce or decrease
30. Cut down on – to reduce the amount of something; to
consume less
31. Cut off – to stop suddenly or to interrupt
32. Cut out – to remove or to stop doing something
33. Do over – to do again or to repeat
34. Draw up – to create a plan or a document
35. Dress up – to wear formal or elegant clothing
36. Drop by – to visit briefly or unexpectedly
37. Drop off – to fall asleep; to leave something or someone in
a certain location
38. Eat out – to eat at a restaurant or outside of one’s home
39. End up – to ultimately arrive or become; to finish in a
certain way
40. Fall apart – to break or disintegrate; to fail completely
41. Fall back on – to use as a last resort; to rely on something
for support
42. Fall behind – to fail to keep up with others
43. Figure out – to understand; to solve a problem
44. Fill out – to complete a form or document
45. Find out – to discover or to learn
46. Fix up – to repair or renovate; to make something ready
47. Follow through – to complete an action or promise
48. Get along – to have a good relationship; to like each other
49. Get away – to escape; to take a break or vacation
50. Get by – to manage or to survive with difficulty
51. Get over – to recover from an illness or an emotional shock
52. Get rid of – to eliminate or to remove
53. Get together – to meet or to reunite with others
54. Give in – to yield or to surrender
55. Give up – to quit or to abandon; to relinquish control or
hope
56. Go ahead
57. Go ahead – to begin or to proceed
58. Go off – to explode; to sound an alarm; to go bad (food)
59. Go on – to continue; to happen
60. Grow apart – to drift away from each other
61. Grow up – to become an adult; to mature
62. Hang out – to spend time with friends
63. Hang up – to end a phone call
64. Hold back – to restrain or to prevent from advancing
65. Hold on – to wait; to persevere
66. Keep up – to continue at the same pace or level; to
maintain something
67. Kick out – to evict or to expel
68. Knock out – to defeat or to cause unconsciousness
69. Lay off – to dismiss or to fire employees; to stop doing
something
70. Lead to – to result in; to cause
71. Leave behind – to abandon or to forget
72. Let down – to disappoint or to fail to fulfill a promise
73. Look after – to take care of; to watch over
74. Look down on – to feel superior to; to have contempt for
75. Look forward to – to be excited about something that will
happen in the future
76. Look into – to investigate; to research
77. Look out – to be careful; to watch for danger
78. Look up – to search for information; to improve
79. Make up – to reconcile or to invent; to apply cosmetics
80. Mess up – to make a mistake; to ruin or spoil something
81. Move in – to start living in a new home or apartment
82. Move out – to leave one’s current residence
83. Pass out – to faint or to distribute
84. Pass up – to reject or to decline an opportunity
85. Pay back – to return money that was borrowed or to take
revenge
86. Pick out – to choose or to select
87. Pick up – to collect or to improve; to lift something from the
ground
88. Point out – to draw attention to; to indicate
89. Put down – to criticize or to insult; to write something on
paper
90. Put off – to postpone or to delay
91. Put on – to wear clothing or to stage a performance
92. Put out – to extinguish or to inconvenience others
93. Put up – to accommodate or to display
94. Run into – to meet unexpectedly; to collide with
95. Run out – to be depleted or to expire
96. Set up – to establish or to frame
97. Show off – to display one’s abilities or possessions
98. Stand by – to support or to wait for
99. Stand for – to represent or to tolerate
100. Take after – to resemble or to imitate
101. Take on – to accept or to undertake a challenge or
responsibility