Master 199 English Phrasal Verbs: From Get By to Put Up With
199 English phrasal verbs with plain-English definitions: put up with, pull off, get by, come down with. Study them by particle and make them stick.
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Phrasal verbs are where natural-sounding English is won or lost. Ask is easy. Put up with, pull off and get by are the ones that make a sentence sound native, and none of them can be guessed from their parts. The Flip It deck English Phrasal Verbs (IF7922) holds 199 of them, each paired with a plain-English definition rather than a translation, which is exactly the format that makes them stick.
Study this deck: English Phrasal Verbs
1 / 10grow up
Tap the card for the answer · swipe right if you knew it, left if not
What is actually inside
The range runs from everyday combinations (wake up, sit down, eat out, find out) to genuinely advanced idiomatic ones: bear down on, tee off on, stand on ceremony, load up on, sit in for, pass for. Ten base verbs carry most of the load: go (13 cards), get (12), take (11), then put, look and turn with 9 each, followed by come, pull and run.
Ten cards from the deck
| Phrasal verb | Definition on the back |
|---|---|
| put up with | to tolerate or endure |
| pull off | to succeed in doing something difficult |
| get by | to manage or survive |
| come down with | to become ill with |
| take after | to resemble (a family member) |
| tell off | to scold or reprimand |
| do away with | to eliminate or abolish |
| pull through | to survive a difficulty |
| stand by | to support or remain loyal |
| write off | to cancel (debt); to dismiss |
The full sweep
You will work through: giving up, backing up, calling off, carrying on, catching up, checking in and out, breaking down, breaking up, falling behind, falling out, falling for, figuring out, filling in versus filling out, getting along, getting over, getting rid of, handing in and handing out, holding up, keeping up with, knocking out, leaving out, letting down, looking after, looking into, looking up to, passing away, passing out, pointing out, pulling over, putting off, running out, selling out, settling down, showing off, showing up, standing out, stepping down, sticking around, taking over, tearing down, throwing up, trying on, turning down, turning into, warming up, wearing out, winding up, wiping out and working out.
Two ways to study it better
Group by particle, not by verb. The deck is ordered by base verb, which is the hardest possible order to memorise. Re-sort it mentally by the second word instead. Up appears in 37 cards and usually marks completion (use up, wind up, clean up). Out appears in 34 and marks exhaustion or removal (run out, wear out, throw out). Down covers 20 cards for reduction or collapse (cut down, break down, slow down), and off covers 14 for separation (call off, cut off, take off). One particle per session beats one letter of the alphabet.
Treat every semicolon as a second card. 59 of the 199 backs list two or more unrelated meanings, and four are triples: pick up (lift, collect, learn), make up (invent, reconcile, apply cosmetics), take in (understand, deceive, shelter) and work out (exercise, solve, succeed). Do not mark a card correct when you recall one sense. Say all of them, then build a sentence for the meaning you would never reach for on your own.
Start reviewing
Open IF7922 — English Phrasal Verbs from your library on flip-it.app and run one particle group a day. In under three weeks the whole set is in rotation.
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