Forthycause's List: English Phrasal Verbs

• Martha aced out Rebecca to win the

  first-place trophy
• Don’t act your aggressions out on

  me
• She acted out her aggression
• Act your request out, if you can’t

  say it
• Please

  add these figures up again.
• I’ll have to air out the car. Someone

  has been smoking in it
• allow someone or something into a place and allow someone

  or something in
• apologize (to someone) (for someone)
• He was never able to

  apologize to himself for his past errors
• apportion something out† (among some people)
• He apportioned

  the cake out among the guests.
• argue someone down
• argue something down
• I tried to argue the

  price down, but it did no good
• I am

  prepared to argue the proposal down in court
• argue something out† to settle something by discussing all

  the important points. _ We are going to have to argue

  this out some other time. _Must we argue out every single

  detail of this contract?
• arrange for someone to do something to make plans for

  someone to do something. _ I will arrange for Charles

  to fix what he broke.

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• act onyourteacher’sadvice
• addup

  •  informal to make sense
• allowfor
• •     1      come to be (a total) when added together.
        2      be the equivalent of.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson, eds., Concise Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
• • her story just doesn’t add up
• •  to serve as an addition 〈the movie will add to his fame〉
    
    
    
    
    Inc Merriam-Webster, Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003).
• •  the engine began to act up when we were miles from anywhere
    
    
    
    
    Collins English Dictionary. (Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006).
• • ▶      (act up) informal behave badly
• • Would you give me some advice for this situation for me to act on? 

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