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Question		Answer
to keep up a house start learning		to maintaina it in good condition
to keep up someone's interest start learning		not to allow someone to get bored
to keep up with the Jonses start learning		to aim at not being left behind them socially: to have as many 'status symbols' as they have
to keep up with start learning		i can't keep up with you (you are going too fast for me, either physically in walking or intellectually)
to keep up with/in touchbwith someone start learning		to remain in contact
to keep to the point start learning		to cut out irrelevant matter
to keep on with something start learning		to continue to work at something
to keep house for someone start learning		to do the housework for someone: to be a housekeeper
to keep off start learning		Keep off the grass. (do not walk on it)
to keep off start learning		a subject (to avoid mentioning it)
to keep off start learning		mosquitoes, flies etc. (to prevent them from worrying you)
to keep out start learning		Keep out! (do not enter)
to keep something from someone start learning		I tried to keep it from him. (prevent him from finding out about it)
to knock down start learning		someone (to knock someone flat in an accident or flight)
to knock down start learning		I knock him down to £5. (i haggled until he agreed to accept £5 for the article: colloquial)
to knock up start learning		someone (to awaken someone at a certain time)
to knock up start learning		something (to make it oneself)
to knock someone out start learning		to punch someone so that he falls down unconscious - in boxing or a fight)
to lay down start learning		the law (to speak with great authority - generally without any justification)
to lay down start learning		one's life (to sacrifice it for one's country)
to lay down start learning		one's arm (to surrender)
to be laid up with start learning		to be confined to bed on the doctor's orders because of
to lay off workers start learning		to tell workers to go home because there is no work for them
to lay on electicity, gas, etc start learning		to supply it by connecting it up to the main
the lay-out of a garden etc. start learning		to design of it
to lead off start learning		to start a discussion etc.
to be led away by one's feeling start learning		to be overpowered by them so that one loses rational control
a leading question start learning		a question designed to elicit a particular answer
to let someone down start learning		to fail someone by not keeping one's promise
to let someone into start learning		a room (to allow someone to enter)
to let someone into start learning		a secret (to tell someone it)
to let off start learning		rooms (to allow tenanta to occupy them)
to let off start learning		fireworks or guns (to make them explode)
to let out start learning		clothes (to make them larger)
to let out start learning		a secret (to betray it by accident)
to let out start learning		a cry of pain (not to attempt to suppress it)
to look at start learning		to view, to observe
to lool on/upon someone as a friend start learning		to regard someone as a friend
to look on start learning		to be a passive spectator
an onlooker start learning		a chance spectator
to look over start learning		to check or correct a manuscript etc.
to look over start learning		to give a view of
to look over start learning		someone's book (to get help by seeing what he has written)
to overlook start learning		to give a view of
to overlook start learning		not to notice: to miss a mistake etc.
to overlook start learning		to forgive
to look into something start learning		to investigate something
to look down on someone start learning		to despise someone
to look up to someone start learning		to admire someone
to look someone up start learning		to take the trouble to visit someone when you happen to be in his home town
to look someone up and down start learning		to survey someone critically from head to foot
to look through something start learning		to read something rather cursorily
to look for start learning		to search for something lost
to look for start learning		to expect or exact
to look forward to doing something start learning		to expect to enjoy something
to look like start learning		someone (to resemble someone)
to look like start learning		It looks like remaining fine. (It will probably remain fine)
to look like start learning		What does he look like? (what kind of aplearance does he present)
to look after something or someone start learning		to take care of something or someone
to look out over start learning		to command a view of
Look out! start learning		Take care!
to make out start learning		to find out or discover
to make out start learning		to understand
to make out start learning		to see in the distance with difficulty
to make out start learning		a chque, bill, list etc. (to write it out)
to make out start learning		to pretend
to make up start learning		one's face (to use cosmetics)
to make up start learning		a prescription (to make the medicine from the doctor's instructions)
to make up start learning		a story (to invent it)
to make up start learning		a parcel (to toe it with paper and string)
to make up start learning		one's mind (to decide)
to make up start learning		a fire (to put more coal on it)
to make up start learning		a quarrel (to become reconciled after quarrelling)
to make up start learning		a four (to be fourth player in a game of cards or tennis)
to make up start learning		a bill (to add up the items on it and present it to the customer)
to make up start learning		a bed (to prepare a pare bed to receive a visitor)
to make up start learning		to someone (to be particulary charming because you want someone to do something for you)
make-up start learning		cosmetics
make-up start learning		a person's fundamental character
to be made up of start learning		to be composed of
to make away with someone start learning		to murder someone
to make do with something start learning		to manage with somwthing because one cannot afford to get anything better
Made it! start learning		I've managed it! I've succeed in doing it!
to make a clean breast of something start learning		to confess something fully
to make hay while the sun shines start learning		to take one's opportunity when it comes
to make a mountain out of a molehill start learning		to exaggerate the importance of something
to pass oneself off as someone start learning		to pretend to be someone
to pass on start learning		to die
to pass on start learning		information or news (to tell it to others)
to pass out start learning		to faint
to pass out start learning		to finish one's initial period of training in the army, an apprenticeship
to pass down knowledge from father to son start learning		to transmit orally so as to exclude other from the secret of how to do it
a pretty pass start learning		Things have come to a pretty pass. (They have reached a terrible state; the situation has bexomw really serious)
to pull out start learning		a tooth (to extract it)
to pull out start learning		A car pulled out. (It left the kerb after being parked there or moved towards the centre of the road to overtake)
to pull someone's leg start learning		to tease, joke with someone
to pull down start learning		a building (to demolish it)
to pull down start learning		An attack of 'flu pulls you down. (It makes you feel weak and depressed for a long time afterwards)
to pull somerhing off start learning		to remove an object
to pull something off start learning		to succeed in an endeavour
to pull round start learning		to recover from an illness
to pull someone round start learning		to cure someone of and illness
to pull oneself together start learning		to control one's behaviour with an effort; to force oneself to bahave rationally
to pull up start learning		to stop - used of cars, taxi etc.
to pull strings start learning		to use personal influence, e. g to obtain a job
to pull through start learning		to survive an illness
to pull someone through start learning		to cure someone of an illness
output start learning		production, either industrial or artistic
to put off a light start learning		to switch it off
to put off doing something start learning		to postpone doing something
to put someone off the idea of doing something start learning		to discourage someone from doing something
to put someone off someone start learning		That put me off him. (it made me dislike him)
to put in start learning		an hour's work (to do it)
to put in start learning		to interrupt a conversation
to put in start learning		at a port (to call at it on the way to somewhere else)
to put in start learning		a good word for someone (to speak well of someone: to recommend him)
to put in start learning		an application (to write it and send it off)

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