ON Flashcards

(38 cards)

1
Q

Get on my nerves

A

Annoy

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2
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Keep on

A

To continue doing something (it may annoy you)

To continue to employ someone

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3
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Put on

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Start wearing something
Organize an event
Start to cook
Become fatter
To pretend to have a particular feeling or a particular way of speaking or behaving
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4
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Come on

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Vamos! Used for telling someone to hurry
To develop or make progress
To start working by being switched on
To appear on a stage
If an illness comes on, it starts to affect you
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5
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Go on

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Continue
Happen
Electricity etc: work
To do something after doing something else
Used for encouraging someone to do something

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6
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Turn on

A

Make something start working
Use a quality you have
Attack someone

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7
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Call on

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Officially ask someone to do something

Quick visit

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8
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Take on

A

Employ someone
Accept work/responsibility
To develop a particular character or appearance

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9
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Get on well

A

Be friends with someone

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10
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Bring on

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Cause the onset of an illness

To make something bad happen to someone

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11
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Catch on

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Become popular, fashionable

To understand

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12
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Count on

A

Rely on

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13
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Get on for

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Approach a certain age/time/number

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14
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Get on

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Make progress - especially in life

Continue doing something

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15
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Carry on

A

Continue

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16
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Pick on

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Repeatedly criticise

17
Q

Send on

A

Forward (a letter etc.)

18
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Stay on

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To remain at a job, school, or place for longer than you had intended to

19
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Cheer on

A

Shout encouragement

20
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Set on

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Order to attack

21
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Hold on

22
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Switch on

A

Start electrical equipment - turn on

23
Q

Try on

A

Put sg. on to see if it fits

24
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Live on

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Have (money or food) for survival

To eat a particular kind of food

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Touch on
Mention briefly
26
Move on
Start talking about a new subject To tell someone to move away from a place To start to continue with your life after you have dealt successfully with a bad experience
27
Look on
Watch an activity | To think of someone or something in a particular way
28
Drag on
Continue unnecessarily for a long time
29
Work on
To spend time producing or improving sg Used for saying that you are dealing with sg To try to influence someone
30
Pass on
Give something Give someone an illness Make someone pay a cost
31
Ramble on
Keep talking for a long time in a very disorganized way
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Let on
To talk about something that is intended to be a secret
33
Lay on
To provide sg such as food, entertainment, or a service, especially without charging for it
34
Run on
To continue for longer than expected or planned | Car: using petrol
35
Hit on
To suddenly have an idea
36
Leave on
Don't switch off sg.
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Wave on
To signal to a car not to stop
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Tell on
Give away information about somebody