Generally speaking, if you “carry” something, you put it in your hands and take it somewhere: “She carried my bags up to the second floor.” Now let’s see some phrasal verbs with the verb “to carry”. Carry away (to get carried away) To become very enthusiastic and excited about something. This often causes you to behave in a silly way:
Carry off If you “carry something off”, you succeed in doing something difficult: It was a difficult bank robbery, but we carried it off really well.
Nice house! Yes, Frank designed it, but I think he got a bit carried away with the idea of an Egyptian theme.
Carry on To continue doing something:
Carry out (a job) To do (a job)
Hello? Mr Rabbit? I’m carrying out a survey on eating habits and I was wondering if I could talk to you for a minute or two. Carry on walking. There’s not much further to go - just about 20 kilometres.
Carry back If something “carries you back”, it reminds you of the past:
Carry up To physically take someone to a place that is higher than the one you are at:
The sight of all those bananas carries me back to my days in the jungle.
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It was so romantic - Mr Beast took me in his arms, carried me up to the bedroom and…
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