Name: “Get over it”, “hook up”, “blow away”: 10 Everyday English Expressions
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In today's lesson, I'm going to share with you some slang or very casual phrasal verbs.

Verb and preposition combinations that have very different meanings than the two individual words.

So, these are all, like I mentioned, they're very casual, very informal slang.

Don't use these in your writing if you're doing some formal writing.

And also, make sure you actually understand these before you try to use them.

A couple of them could get you in trouble, but I'll point these out as well.

Two meanings I'm going to tell you about.

One is a bit more literal, like get out, leave.

But when you tell somebody to get out, you're expressing a little bit of anger or frustration.

When somebody says get out like that, it means they're very shocked or surprised by what you're saying to them.

So, somebody, my friend tells me that that girl he met at the bar, he went home with her.

So, if you bend over backward for someone, it means you're trying as hard as you possibly can to help them or to do something for them, right?

So, my boss says to me like, you know, you're not getting the pay raise.

And I'm like, what are you talking about?

I bend over backward for you every day in this job.

I'm doing things that are not even part of my job.

I'm bending over backward in effort, okay?

If you just say only bend over, this could have a very, very different meaning, a little bit...

You have to be careful when you're saying it and who you're saying it to.

To bend over means to bend over forward, but that leaves another part of your body exposed, and somebody could take advantage of you.

So, it's a little bit risqué, it's a little bit dangerous to say.

To bend over generally means to let somebody take advantage of you.

If you bust out in something, usually you're going to bust out in...

Basically, start suddenly, out of the blue.

I was driving in my car with my friend, and suddenly he busted out in song.

Like, bust means like break very violently, but this is, again, not a bad thing.

If somebody busts out in song, if somebody busts out a record or busts out some...

A bottle of whiskey, everybody starts drinking.

So, somebody says, oh yeah, I'm going to steal your car, and I'm looking at my car, and my car is very old and rusty, and it's not worth anything, and I go, have at it.

If somebody says, have at it, it means they're giving you permission, but generally, it means they don't care.

They're actually happy if you do it, so you're not...

If you threaten them and they say, have at it, they don't care.

This is a very, very commonly used expression.

Something happened to me, and I'm very upset about it, and I complain, and complain, and complain, and finally my friend says, okay, okay, just get over it.

Somebody can say together, or just move on, or just get over it.

Just, it happened, it's finished, it's in the past, go on to the future.

And this is generally about something bad, and you say it to someone who's complaining too much, or is upset too much, especially about something they can't change, right?

So, my boss asked me to come to work on the weekend, but I had plans, so...

But I need this job, so my friends say, okay, listen, if he wants you to come in, just go.

Chill out, just, you know, relax, do nothing.

No, I think I'll just stay home and chill out.

Just stay on my couch, watch TV, relax, maybe a glass of wine if I'm into it.

If something blows you away, it means it's like, wow, like really, really amazing.

So, I went to a music concert last night, and then I met my friend today, and she asked me, how was the concert?

Oh, you know, that guy, he just blew me away.

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“Get over it”, “hook up”, “blow away”: 10 Everyday English Expressions

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