• Literal meaning : Go : to move or travel from one place to another
Out : away from the inside of a place or thing • Idiomatic meaning : To leave a room or building, especially in order to do
something for entertainment. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary • Types
: Semi opaque meaning
4.1.1.2 Separable Phrasal Verbs 1. Push someone off
• Sentence : The deer had pushed her off the road and into the cornfield
p 18 • Literal meaning
: Pushed: to use your hands, arms or body in order to make something move forward or away from you.
Off: away from a place • Idiomatic meaning : To apply pressure to and force someonesomething
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• Types : Opaque meaning
2. Look somebody into
• Sentence : Alexis looked into the woman’s terrified eyes p 18
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• Literal meaning : Looked : to turn your eyes in a particular direction
Into : to a position in or inside something • Idiomatic meaning : To investigate, examine carefully Cambridge Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary • Types
: Opaque meaning
3. Helpsomeoneup
• Sentence : Alexis helped Sue up the slope and into the Vaughans’ car
p 18 • Literal meaning
: Help: to make it easier or possible for somebody to do something
by doing something for them or by giving them something that
they need. Up: towards or in a higher position
• Idiomatic meaning : To help someone rise up from something Cambridge Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary • Types
: Semi opaque meaning
4.Kicksomething off
• Sentence : … who had kicked off his shoes, got out of the car p 20
• Literal meaning : Kick: to hit something with your foot
Off: away from a place • Idiomatic meaning : To begin a football game by kicking the ball
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: semi opaque meaning
5.Take something out
• Sentence : The man says, ‘well, I haven’t taken it out of the bowl yet.”
p 23 • Literal meaning
: Take: to carry or move something from one place to another Out: away from the inside of a place or thing
• Idiomatic meaning : To remove extract Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
• Types : Semi opaque meaning
6 . Push somebody into
• Sentence : … she pushed him into the closet, stark naked. p 24
• Literal meaning : Pushed: pushed: to use your hands, arms or body in order to
make something move forward or away from you.
Into: to a position in or inside something • Idiomatic meaning : To guide, shove, or press someone or something inside of
someone or something Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
• Types : semi opaque meaning
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7 . Creep someone out
• Sentence : why certain sounds creep us out p 31
• Literal meaning : Creep: to move slowly, quietly and carefully, because you
don’t want to be seen or heard.
Out: away from the inside of a place or thing • Idiomatic meaning : To move from beneath something slowly and carefully; to
sneak from beneath something. Cambridge Advanced Learners
Dictionary • Types
: Semi opaque meaning
8 . Asked somebody for
• Sentence : When I asked him for help with dinner, Ray’s response
surprised me.p 46
• Literal meaning : Asked: to say or write something in front of the question in
order to get information
For: used to show who is intended to have or use something or
where something is intended to be put.
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• Idiomatic meaning : To request something from someone Robby Lou p 152 • Types
: Opaque meaning
9 .Prepared somebody for
• Sentence : I wondered what else I hadn’t prepared Ray for p 46
• Literal meaning : Prepared : to make something ready to used or to do
For: used to show who is intended to have or use something or
where something is intended to be put. • Idiomatic meaning : To build someone up for shocking news. Cambridge
Advanced Learn Dictionary
• Types : Opaque meaning
10 . Cleaned something up
• Sentence : America’s most wanted cleaned up our streets p 75
• Literal meaning : Cleaned: not dirty
Up: towards or in a higher position • Idiomatic meaning : To clean completely and thoroughly Cambridge Advanced
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: Semi opaque meaning
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11 . Focused something on
• Sentence : The show focused on the doctor’s orders for a teenager with
high blood pressure p 75
• Literal meaning : Focused: to give attention , effort to one particular subject,
situation or person rather than another On: in or into a position covering, touching or forming part
of a Surface • Idiomatic meaning : To give a lot of attention to one particular person, subject or
thing Robby Lou p 152 • Types
: Semi opaque meaning
12 . Pick someone up
• Sentence : As a pick me up, a triple espresso works expeditiously p
82 • Literal meaning
: Pick: to choose something from a group of people or things Up: :towards or in a higher position
• Idiomatic meaning : To collect or to go and get someonesomething Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary
• Types : Opaque meaning
13. Check something out
