Animal Phrasal Verbs: English Iv

Animal Phrasal Verbs
DRA. ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ GUTIÉRREZ

ENGLISH IV
NOVEMBER 2021 .
ANIMAL PHRASAL VERBS
 Chicken out
 Meaning: Not do something because you’re afraid
 Example: I was going to go bungee jumping but I chickened out at the last minute.
 Duck out
 Meaning: Leave quickly and unannounced
 Example: If I can I’ll duck out to get something to eat.
 Fish for
 Meaning: Ask for or try to get something in an indirect way
 Example: The telephone caller was fishing for too much information, so I hung up.
 Fish out
 Meaning: Pull something out of a place
 Example: She fished a piece of paper out of the pile on her desk.
 Horse around
 Meaning: Play in a loud/rough way
 Example: He was horsing around in the kitchen and broke my favourite bowl.
 Leech off
 Meaning: Use someone, or cling to s.o for personal gain, often not giving
anything in return
 Example: He’s leeching off the abilities of others.
 Pig out
 Meaning: Eat a lot of food at once
 Example: Kids tend to pig out on junk food.
 Wolf down
 Meaning: Eat very quickly
 Example: Don’t wolf down an entire chocolate cake; you will get indigestion.
 Monkey around
 Meaning: To do things in an unserious way; to play or waste time
 Example: We just monkeyed around all afternoon.
 Beaver away
 Meaning: Work hard doing something
 Example: She was beavering away at his homework until after midnight.
 Ferret out
 Meaning: To find (something, such as information) by careful searching.
 Example: I had to ferret out all the information for myself.
 Worm out of
 Meaning: Draw or manipulate information out of someone
 Example: I eventually managed to worm a few details out of her.
 Rat on
 Meaning: Inform on (someone) to a person in a position of authority
 Example: I never thought John would rat on me.
 Rabbit on (UK)
 Meaning: Continue talking about something that is not interesting to the person
you are talking to
 Example: John’s always rabbiting on about his coin collection.
 Monkey with
 Meaning: Bother or interfere with someone or something
 Example: Come on, don’t monkey with my new laptop.
 Turn turtle
 Meaning: Turn upside down; to flip over
 Example: A large wave caused our little boat to turn turtle.
 Squirrel away
 Meaning: Stash, hide or hoard something for future use
 Example: He had bits of string, cans of nails and lots of other useful tidbits
squirreled away throughout his garage.
 Clam up
 Meaning: Become silent; to stop talking, to shut up
 Example: She just clams up if you ask her about his family.
 Ferret around
 Meaning: Search for something by sorting through materials
 Example: We need to know more about this new chap. Why don’t you go to
his home town and ferret around a bit?
 Lark about/around (UK)

 Meaning: Behave in a silly way because you think it is funny
 Example: A couple of boys were larking about in the pool.
 Drone on
 Meaning: Talk for a long time in a boring way
 Example: I nearly fell asleep while he was droning on!
Complete the following
 1. He wanted to go with us but in the end he __________ He was just bluffing.
 2. It is only a 15-minute break so we’ll have to _________ our lunch.
 3. Instead of answering the questions she __________.
 4. I don’t how my mother new about my skipping school, I think you __________ me.
 5. I think we need to __________ some money for a rainy day!!
 6. Someone must have __________ my wallet from my purse!! I can’t find it!!
 7. Some teachers hate it when students __________ in class, but not me!
 8. I think Mary is __________ all of you!!! She is a fair-weather friend!
 9. Claudia is supposed to be on a diet but she __________ at the baby shower.
 10. After all, it was a very nice field trip we were just _________ all day long.
Explain the meaning
 Fish for
 Duck out
 Drone on
 Ferret around
 Monkey with
 Rabbit on
 Worn out of
 Turn turtle
DOG
VERBS MEANING

1. To judge or criticize someone for
 I really think she should see a therapist if memories
 something. of the accident keep dogging her like that.
 2. To follow or pursue someone.  I was working like a dog and you were just
 3. To persistently trouble someone nodding!
 4. Something of poor quality.  That movie was a real dog—

I left before it was over.
 5. To work really hard
 Why are you dogging me about this? It's really not
a big deal.
 You've been dogging me since I left the gas stati
on—what's your deal, man?

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DRA. ANA MARÍA MARTÍNEZ GUTIÉRREZ

 Lark about/around (UK)

 4. Something of poor quality.  That movie was a real dog—

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