Idioms and phrasal verbs: describing people II
Answer back
To reply impertinently
Ask out
To invite somebody, especially on a date
Break up / Split up
To end a relationship
Bring out To evoke, or emphasize a particular quality.
Bring together
Create a situation in which people meet and do something together, especially when they would not usually do so
Bump into To collide with or to meet by chance
Run into
Cancel out
To neutralize the effect of something
Come between To affect negatively
Crowd around
Move to a particular place at the same time as a lot of other people.
Go together Used when two things exist together; when two things look good, natural or attractive in combination.
Meet up
To meet somebody by arrangement (or not)
Open up
- Talk more about personal feelings - Open a locked door, container‌ - Make it easier to travel or do business in a country
Pick on
To make fun of somebody
Sound out
To question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, especially by using indirect conversational remarks
Take after
To resemble in appearance or habit
Take to
To begin as a new practice or habit