Name: Learn 8 KICK Phrasal Verbs in English: "kick back", "kick out", "kick up"...
Uploaded: 2020-12-15T20:05:21.000Z
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In today's video we're going to look at another set of phrasal verbs.

Now, just as a reminder: What is a phrasal verb?

A phrasal verb is a combination of a verb and a preposition: "in", "on", "at", "off",

etc. and the combination usually makes other meanings than the two words themselves.

Now, some phrasal verbs obviously have more than one meaning, so we're going to look at

the different meanings with the verb "kick".

For example: "kick in", "kick back", "kick out", "kick off", "kick about" or "kick around",

Now, some of these will have more than one meaning, some will just have the one meaning.

Some of these can also be joined to make a noun, and we're going to look at that as well.

The more literal one, like takes the verb "kick" means to kick with your leg, so if

you kick something in, you're breaking it with your feet.

So the most common example is, like, police, they go into...

They want to go into an apartment or a house and arrest somebody, so they kick in the door.

We can also say: "kick down" for the same meaning.

They kick down the door or they kick in the door, so physically break with your feet.

Another meaning of "kick" is basically take effect.

This is especially used when we're talking about drugs, when we're taking a pill.

So the doctor gave you a pill, maybe you have a really bad headache and you take a Tylenol

or an Advil, or Aspirin or whatever, and it doesn't work right away.

It takes a little time for the pill to kick in.

So basically to take effect, to start working.

So, now, we can also use this in other situations.

So the government decided to increase taxes, but they don't do it suddenly.

Because a lot of people will not be ready for it, it will cause a lot of problems.

So they say: "Okay, starting in six months, we have a new policy where the tax will go

So this policy will kick in on September 1st, for example, whenever that six months down

Now, we can also use "kick in" to contribute.

Janice, the accountant, has a birthday and everybody wants to, you know, show her...

Show their appreciation for her hard work, so everybody's going to kick in five bucks,

and we collect all this money and we create a party for Janice.

So, "kick in" basically means give, contribute to a pool.

First of all, there's the literal one where you kick back.

It means I'm sitting at home with my feet up on a table, and I'm just relaxing, doing nothing.

Another meaning of "kick back" is payment, is a type of payment, but usually it means a bribe.

A bribe means you're paying somebody to do something for you.

The most common example that I can think of is doctors and pharmaceutical companies, the

So the doctor, all his patients come in and he says: "Oh, you need this prescription.

Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, but some doctors just prescribe medicine for everybody

Because the pharmacy, the pharmaceutical company gives the doctor a "kickback".

It's a noun, it basically means a bribe, a payment for doing them a favour.

So, to relax or to pay sort of underneath as a gift, as a bribe.

"To kick out" could be physical, means you take somebody and you kick them out the door.

So if you go to a club and you're not behaving very nicely, the bouncer, the big guys standing

at the door, they will take you and they will kick you out.

You could be in a band or in a team, or whatever, and your teammates or your bandmates have

a bit of a problem with you, it means they kick you out.

"Expel", usually use this word at school, if you do something bad at school, the school

So they will kick you out, it's a more slang approach to it.

And that's it, so basically a kick out physically or kick out, remove somebody, force them to

Now, before I get into "kick off", "kick out" and "kick off" can also mean the same thing,

But "kick off", you would kick somebody off a bus, or a plane, or a train.

Basically, you get on the bus, you get into a car.

So anything that is "on", you can get kicked off of or kicked out of.

So, kicked off a bus, kicked out of the car, so remove.

So, again, so "kick off", basically remove from a bus, a train, whatever.

That's one meaning, that's the physical meaning.

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