Name: 18 Driving Phrasal Verbs in English (back up, pull into, drop off...)
Uploaded: 2026-03-17T18:01:18.000Z
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So I always tell my students, hey, if you're really at an advanced level in English, forget about the idioms.

But one thing we do use a lot phrasal verbs.

They're confusing because you can go up, you can go down, you can go over, and

And what you think is the opposite quite exactly isn't.

So, for example, you can turn on and turn off something that's great, but

nothing's that easy all the time with phrasal verbs in English.

So this one is specifically for driving, and I'm going to teach you the opposites.

A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition.

The preposition are things like up, off, down, into.

In all these fun, little, tiny words that make your life hell.

And of course, I have a story for you about this.

My best friend and I were driving away in Ireland on the wrong side of the road, or the right side of the road, depending how you look at things.

Anyways, the opposite side of the road of what I'm used to in Canada, and, you know, we rock up to our little beautiful Irish Airbnb or hotel.

Usually the cars that I've driven my entire life have P for park, D for drive, N for neutral, R for reverse, and

There's an alien one if you want your spaceship to go further.

Long story short, I couldn't find the damn reverse.

Like, the R was there, but I'm like, there's no how to.

He's like, do you need some help there, girls?

Like, yeah, you know, I know how to drive, and

I've driven here, but I can't get the car into reverse.

There's a button, like a button that you press to make the car go backwards.

So actually, Patrick, like, backed up the car into the parking spot.

The opposite of that is it's really easy and sensible.

See, you would think, like, back down, back over.

So if someone, hey, I will pick you up at 7.

That means the person who's driving in their car or this side of the road, it doesn't matter, okay.

Is going to go to your house or your location, and

you are going to go in the car and drive together.

The person's had enough of your shit and just gets you out of the car.

To drop someone off means you leave the person.

So you get out of the car and the driver doesn't.

Or you're like, whoa, thank God, I'm out of that car.

Have you ever gotten the speeding ticket?

See, speed down would make more sense, right?

No, so it's speed, slow down, which means reduce the speed, and speed up means increase the speed.

So when you drop off a passenger, if you're still in the car, you're like, oh, bye, bye.

So I can say, oh, I pulled up to the store.

Or I pulled up to the side of the road and someone got in.

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18 Driving Phrasal Verbs in English (back up, pull into, drop off...)

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