to pick up
to pick up: to lift from the floor, table, etc., with one’s fingers
Examples of PICK UP
- He went to pick up his kids from soccer practice.
- Don’t forget to pick up milk at the store!
to pick up: to lift from the floor, table, etc., with one’s fingers
have got: to have, to possess Examples of HAVE GOT Coenen has got some work to do when she gets back to her home city of Amsterdam. Have you got one of those fancy German cars they were handing out in the summer?
to take for: to perceive or understand as Examples of TO TAKE FOR “Do you take me for a fool?” the policeman asked the suspect, when he started contradicting his story. I miss my ex-girlfriend; I shouldn’t have taken her for granted.
on purpose: for a reason, deliberately Examples of ON PURPOSE “So you’re telling me that you lost the game on purpose?” the commissioner asked the baseball player who was accused of taking a bribe. I tried to explain that the boy didn’t break the window on purpose, so his parents wouldn’t be mad at him.
to knock one self out: to work very hard (sometimes too hard) to do somethingA reflexive pronoun must divide the idiom. Examples of TO KNOCK ONE SELF OUT She really knocked herself out trying to pass that difficult class. Don’t knock yourself out during practice. Save your strength for the competition later.
to hand in: to submit or deliver something that is due Examples of TO HAND IN All the sale people hand their weekly reports in on Friday. Every student has to hand in an original composition each week of the semester.
to keep track of: to keep or maintain a record of; to remember the locationof Examples of TO KEEP TRACK OF We’re going to keep track of your sales figures, to determine how much of a bonus you’ll receive. The manager didn’t expect how many projects he would be given and expected to keep track…