“Blow Up”, “Tell Off”, “Let Down”: 11 PHRASAL VERBS for Emotions

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Learn to talk about emotions in natural, fluent English. These 11 expressions will help you describe feelings like anger, frustration, disappointment, and even joy. You’ll learn how to use emotional phrasal verbs like “lash out”, “lighten up”, “loosen up”, “take out on”, “get over”, “stir up”, “get to”, “tell off”, “let down”, “crack up”, and “blow up”. Learn how to express how you feel clearly and add colour to your descriptions by using these expressions. https://www.engvid.com/11-phrasal-verbs-for-emotions/ Make sure to subscribe to my writing channel, @WritetotheTop! More of my videos about phrasal verbs: 16 "MAKE" Phrasal Verbs https://youtu.be/5Q1LRungTaE 15 Phrasal Verbs for Business & Work https://youtu.be/iHpdZ8h945k In this lesson: 0:00 10 Emotional Phrasal Verbs 1:09 lash out 2:04 lighten up & loosen up 2:35 take it out on 3:08 get over 3:42 stir up 4:21 get to 5:37 tell someone off 5:54 let down 6:26 crack up 6:59 blow up Transcript: Hi, everybody. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. In today's video, I want to give you some more phrasal verbs, but these are phrasal verbs to talk about emotional situations or about emotions themselves. And again, just to review, what is a phrasal verb? A phrasal verb is a verb and a preposition joined together, and when they are joined together, they may have completely different meanings. In some cases, meanings you can't even guess until you've learned these expressions, right? So, today we're going to look at "lash out" or sometimes "lash out at" someone. "Lighten up", "loosen up" mean is essentially the same, so I put them together. "To take something out on someone", "to get over something" or "get over it", "stir up", "get to", "tell someone off", "let down", "crack up", and "blow up". Now, the key to remember is that a lot of phrasal verbs have more than one meaning, some of them are completely unrelated and used in different contexts. So, today we're only looking at the emotional context of these phrasal verbs. Let's start with "lash out". So, first of all, what is "lash"? So, if you think of a whip, like "whoops", I don't know if I do that well, some people do it perfectly. Or in some places, when they want to punish you, they take a very thin stick and they hit you on the back, that action, to hit, is called "to lash", "to give lashes", and that hit is the lash. So, when you lash out at someone, you're... Essentially, you're attacking them verbally. Not physically, verbally. You're saying some mean things or you're saying some very angry things. Now, it's not always because you want to hurt them, sometimes it's just like you're so frustrated and the first person that comes in front of you, you just lash out at them, you just attack them for nothing, and then later you can apologize because it's not their fault. So, "to lash out" or "to lash out at someone" specifically. "To lighten up", if somebody says to you "oh, just lighten up, you're too tense", or "loosen up, you're so serious all the time", right? That means relax. Don't be so uptight. It's the opposite of uptight. So, if you're too serious, too quiet, maybe a little bit sad, somebody might say this to you, "just loosen up, relax, have a good time", especially if you're at a party, they'll say this to you a lot. "To take it out on someone", so very similar to "lash out", if you have a lot of frustration or a lot of stress and you're angry and you just want to get this anger out of you, you will do it to whoever is available, right? Usually it's the people closest to you, which is not... which is unfortunate, but it happens. So, you take out your frustrations, your anger on someone. You pass it on to them, you yell at them, you verbally abuse them, etc. It happens. So, you just take it out of you, put it on to them. And then, that person will tell you, "just get over it. Get over whatever problems you have, just let it go", which is another actual phrasal verb. Forget about it, whatever happened, let it pass, don't think about it, don't worry about it, don't get stressed about it. And if it's something, especially personal, "get over yourself" basically means don't think so much about yourself, you're not, you know, the king or the queen of the country, forget about it, move on to the next thing. "Stir up". Sometimes, like if you watch a movie, for example, a movie will stir up your emotions. They will... you know, if you get a cocktail and you put some different alcohols and ice and then you stir. So, something stirs up your emotions and they come up to the surface and maybe you start crying or yelling or laughing or whatever. We can also use this to stir up trouble. So, for example, if I'm making fun of you, I'm a little bit stirring you up, means eventually you're going to have a very bad reaction and maybe lash out at me for doing that. […]