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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 148. The verb phrase today is to ' cook up. " Okay.
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Let's take a look at the note here. All right. Now remember when we normally
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say cook that means that you have to apply heat to some food. If you don't
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apply heat to some food ... like if you just make a sandwich that that's prepare.
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That's not cook. Now cook up what's the difference between cook up and cook ? It is
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usually cook up means you you're going to try to do it fast or or not take too
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long. So let's take a look at the the note here. This is the first ... the
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first meaning. If someone cooks up some food, he prepares it by cooking or you
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know, by heating it especially something that may not take too long. Then we say
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you got to cook something up. Number two. To fabricate or completely make
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something up. So this is the definition students might be less
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familiar with. This is usually used in a negative way. Yeah. Like you just made
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something completely false up. All right. So let's look at the first example. This
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is again the one that does has to do with food. If you give me a few minutes, I
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could cook you up some noodles. Or I can cook up some noodles for you.
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It basically means that you know, again it won't take that long. Just wait I can do
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it very fast. Okay. Or number two here. Now the rest two , three, and four have to do
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with making something up, Number two. They cooked up a completely false story
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in order to frame him. Yeah. Maybe they made some fake evidence and they were
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trying to you know, frame him to make him look guilty of something. So they cooked
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it up. Okay. Let's look at number three here.
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That suspect cooked up an alibi. Well an alibi it's kind of a story that you give
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the police that can prove that you didn't do the crime , especially if you could
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prove you were somewhere else when the crime happened. That would be a good
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alibi So that suspect cooked up an alibi. So he
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can pretend he was innocent. I don't know maybe had a friend or a
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girlfriend and maybe he asked the girlfriend to vouch for him. To say you
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know, he was with her at the time of the crime, so that he can have an alibi,
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something like that. And number four here. What kind of excuse
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are you planning on cooking up ? Yeah so I guess in this case the person knows that
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they can't tell the truth. They might they have to come up with an excuse. So
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they have to cook up an excuse. Okay. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was
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clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.