Phrasal Verbs: Use These 7 To Sound AMAZING!

phrasal verbs are one of the trickiest parts of English and today we're looking at phrasal verbs that use a word for an animal but the meaning doesn't have to do with the animal since the meanings might be new or confusing to you I'll give you plenty of examples from real life so you know exactly how to use them to express yourself effectively in English conversation first rat out rat the classic New York City animal and a tester in Labs all over rat Out means to inform someone in Authority abou

t something wrong that someone has done for example I ratted out my friends for Cheating in the ninth grade I felt bad about it but I knew it was the right thing to do have you ever ratted anyone out if you both say nothing you'll each get say a year in jail if you rat out your friend you might get off scotf free while your friend gets the maximum sentence and if you both rat each other out you'll both get a few years if you rat out your friend what was that light joining was the crew already pr

etty tight was it I'm not asking you to rat out like your it's a really good group of people and I'm not asking you to rat out like your you know the big thing magicians are not supposed to rat out each other's tricks and they're like no we're going to we're going to do that rat out each other's tricks because they can use them as leverage to drive uh plea Bargains because they can use them to turn low-level offenders and and get them to um rat out their bosses and get them to rat out their boss

es the wife of the president said that people have to eat healthy so we need to plant a garden my friend said that he then proceeded to rat out his friend and I won't name his friend because there are cameras H but he ratted out his friend who quote eats bad food and therefore is not healthy proceeded to rat out his friend rat out to inform Authority about something wrong or illegal that someone has done she ratted out her boss when she realized he was cheating on his taxes next beef up beef is

the meat we get from cows but beef up means to give more substance or strength to something for example I understand your argument for changing the testing format but you might want to Beef It Up with more examples on how it's helped students or he's really beefed up since he started lifting weights based on where it's earned or where the corporation lives and deemphasize that element and instead beef up the idea of taxing the income based on where the shareholders live beef up the idea of taxin

g $11,000 Check Yes a giant check for a grand like a rent check meant to help beef up the school's library collection meant to help beef up the school's library collection do you feel that now because you were in the public eye that you sort of have to beef up your knowledge of I mean you wrote an entire book on Evolution clearly you felt you had to beef up your knowledge on that that you sort of have to beef up your knowledge but the flood left over $3 billion in damage in its wake prompting th

e federal government to beef up flood control along the Ohio river and in Memphis to beef up flood control skills if you just want to come back to school and and maybe you need to beef up your computer skills you can do that at your local community college and I maybe you need to beef up your computer skills beef up to give more substance or strength to something you need to beef up your argument if you're going to convince me next fawn over a fawn is a baby deer but to fawn over means to praise

someone too much and give them a lot of attention really too much attention it can seem insincere he really fawns over his oldest daughter I think it makes the other two feel left out have you ever seen someone fawning over someone else he's such a humble human being he's so self-deprecating and he hates it when people fawn over him when people fawn over him she is very in charge of her sexuality like men just fawn over her kind of think she's very very beautiful and men just fawn over her that

we fawn over people in our lives as a way to prevent them from harming us again we fawn over people in our lives I'm a journalist by Nature so that's how I operate I'm not ready to fawn over something and I'm not ready to bash something I'm not ready to fawn over something forbidden romance is the thing a lot of people idealize and fawn over rooting for it to work out in the end through all the trials and tribulations a lot of people idealize and fawn over fawn over to praise someone and give t

hem a lot of positive attention she fawns over the smartest kids in class and forgets about the rest of us next squirrel away a squirrel is a small animal found all over the place in the US by the way way I know this word is really tricky to pronounce and I do have a video on how to pronounce squirrel they're very common Parks yards squirrels gather and save acorns so to squirrel away means to put something in a safe or secret place especially so it can be kept for the future for example he's be

en squirreling away money for retirement when we have exciting new ideas our first instinct is to squirrel them away so no one can steal them to squirrel them away they follow the rules because there's somebody looking over their shoulders but they find ways to like teachers will follow the scripted curriculum but they'll do it at double time and so they squirrel away 10 minutes here and 20 minutes there and a half hour there they squirrel away 10 minutes here there's Americans who are going to

have terribly insecure retirements they're going to have to live on whatever they've managed to squirrel away to their own savings to squirrel away to their own savings I have a lot left over depending on the project extra scraps that I would then go squirrel away in my fabric stash I would then go squirrel away the first thing it deals with is 50 bucks you can squirrel away 50 bucks just try believe in yourself 50 bucks you can squirrel away 50 bucks squirrel away to save something for the futu

re I've been squirreling away his his old soccer jerseys throughout his childhood because I want to make a quilt out of them when he goes to college next chicken out a chicken a common barnyard animal one of the main Staples of the American diet to chicken out means to decide not to do something because you're afraid for example I was going to jump off the high dive but I chickened out have you ever chickened out of doing something if you only really talk to them over textt if there's no in-pers

on interaction well then guess what you can tell them all day how you like them but when it finally comes the meeting face to face you're going to cheick it out you're going to cheick it out okay I've made this appointment and I I need to go but I I always chicken out and I get really anxious and I don't you know I get overwhelmed and so I can't go I always chicken out they were coming from this feeling like oh my God I'm not going to do this I'm going to chicken that I'm not going to do this an

d it's going to be the biggest mistake of my life I'm going to chicken that I'm not going to do this that in the book um the Gunslinger he he kills the little kid and in the movie of course they chicken out they don't show it don't talk about it nothing I was mortified so they chicken out they don't show it don't talk about it nothing because Mitch McConnell decided to chicken out and even though reports as recently is this time yesterday were telling us that McConnell was secretly cheering on i

mpeachment yeah decided to chicken out another thing that I want to get more confident on at least is skiing steep stuff cuz if I think about it for too long I generally tend to chicken out I generally tend to chicken out chicken out to not do something because you're afraid she says she'll go bungee jumping with me on vacation but I'm afraid she's going to chicken out next wolf down you may know that a wolf is a wild animal part of the dog family to Wolf down is when you eat as fast as possible

as if you were a ravenous wolf in the wild to eat without table manners after the marathon she wolfed down a bagel where couples in courtship would keep a slice of apple crammed under their armpit during dances and at the end of the evening the girl would give the guy she most fancied her used fruit and if he the feeling was Mutual he would wolf down that stinky apple he would wolf down that stinky Apple well that's just weird these fruits don't hold a candle to the very worst thing Zimmer said

he had to Wolf down though fermented spoiled food like Iceland's how Carl ranks as his absolute least favorite thing to try Zimmer said he had to Wolf down and if you follow some recommendations you should take a long time eating food because we are a nation of under chewers that we uh we just wolf down our food that we just wolf down our food a Disney princess who can make this incredible all I will not subject to you guys to watch me wolf town the rest of this to watch me wolf town the rest o

f this he just knows to move these around but he can't come in here with an open mouth and wolf it down and that's when you run the risk of Choke because you wolf down too much at once with an open mouth and wolf it down wolf down to eat very fast P will you please wolf down your sandwich we need to get going our final phrasal verb okay it's not an animal but it's the word Farm it's to farm out it means to send out or subcontract work to others for example I don't think my audio editor does all

his own editing I think he Farms out some of the work to his friends I saw that happen for 10 years straight and there's no way I want to pay a company to learn that much and not get the learning so this it's one thing like I'll Farm out graphic design I'll Farm out engineering if we have to um there's I'll Farm out pretty much anything to build capacity I'll Farm out graphic design I'll Farm out engineering clment that you can easily Farm out to some third party clment that you can easily Farm

out to some third party people who are studying with him as though he were a school and paying him to do that um and he would Farm out an apprentice to each house for the most part he would Farm out an apprentice to each house how is filtering information going to be more collaborative how do we uh Farm out some of the work to machines how do we Farm out some of the work to machines uh some of the stuff we do ourselves on the stuff we we Farm out to to a vendor some the stuff we do ourselves on

the stuff we we Farm out to to a vendor Farm out to subcontract work to others they Farm out their call center overseas seven phrasal verbs and here's a challenge take one of them and write a sentence in the comments below using it keep your learning going now with this video and don't forget to subscribe with notifications on so you never miss a video I love being your English teacher that's it and thanks so much for using Rachel's English