Polish English Dictionary

zrywać in English:

1. to break up

Monica decided to break up with Jim.

We decided to break up.

English word "zrywać"(to break up) occurs in sets:

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Relationships, conflicts, problems.
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Phrasal Verbs (a-b)

2. pick

A pick is a long handled tool used for breaking up hard ground surfaces.

pick mushrooms

The way some people see it, associating with the opposite sex is just like going to the seaside and gathering stones; everyone can pick up the ones they like.

If the tip was a dime in one glass, the waitress, in her haste to get the table ready for the next customer, would pick up the glass, the water would spill out, and that would be the end of it.

Pick a few random sentences (just 2 or 3), record them, and send us the samples at team@tatoeba.org, with the title "Audio for Tatoeba in <language_name>".

If you had to characterize your wife in three words, which ones would you pick?

If you're at all wishy-washy during a negotiation the other side will pick up on it and get the upper hand.

When I'm home and I'm going to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be careful how I cross the street?

I forgot about pickaxe!

When the manager picked the team, Sam was disappointed not to be in it.

if you pick fruit or vegetables or flowers, you take them from the plant that they are growing on so that you can eat them or show them indoors

Whether you pick the Lions or Tigers to win, the result will be a toss-up because both teams are equally strong.

In countries with electoral colleges, citizens vote for representatives to pick heads of state for them, adding an extra layer to what would otherwise be a direct election.

Calina needs to go back to the doctor next week. And while I'm on the subject, don't forget to pick up her prescription on your way home from work.

If you have a bone to pick with a person, tell it to his face instead of saying things behind his back.

English word "zrywać"(pick) occurs in sets:

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Słówka 11-17.12

3. split up

When did you split up with Marco?

My parents split up last year.

I'm not with Susan any more, we split up two weeks ago.

They split up after years of marriage.

She split up with her boyfriend, ponieważ się kłócili. She broke up with her boyfriend.

They decided to split up after 20 years of marriage.

It's been two years since they split up.

She split up with her boyfriend last week.

After 30 years toether my parents decided to split up

Ross and Rachel split up

I'm not with Ann any more, we split up two weeks ago.

Let's split up now and meet again at lunchtime.

My parents split up when I was three.

When people split up with someone, they often tear up their photographs.

My sister and herboyfriend split up last month

English word "zrywać"(split up) occurs in sets:

zycie rodzinne i towarzyskie
angielski inc, A, C

4. pluck

expertly plucked eyebrows

it must have taken a lot of pluck to walk along a path marked ‘Danger’

Birds pluck out their feathers. He plucked the letter from my hand. He was plucked from obscurity to star in the film.

Not unless he wanted to pluck up the courage

To pluck a chicken.

Gary has to pluck a whole lot of thorns out of his leg every time he trips over the rosebush.

The last passengers were plucked from the ship just seconds before it sank.

He leaned down and plucked the red rose.

And their response, of course, was no more than we wanted to stop the genocide and put our troops in harm’s way to do that, nor do we now want to get in the way and pluck genocidaires from camps.

She gave a pluck at my elbow.

Or would I were a little burnish'd apple For you to pluck me, gliding by so cold, While sun and shade your robe of lawn will dapple, Your robe of lawn, and your hair's spun gold.