If someone or something turns up, they appear or are found, either after a long time or when you are not expecting them.
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Sex and the City
Tatum O’Neal(Kyra) used the phrasal verb “turn up” while talking to Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) in Season 6, Episode 9(A Woman’s Right to Shoes) of Sex [...]
The phrasal verb “rip off sth” or “rip sth off” means to remove a piece of clothing very quickly and carelessly.
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Sex and the City
Sarah Jessica Parker(Carrie Bradshaw) used the phrasal verb “rip off” while talking to Cynthia Nixon(Miranda Hobbes) in Season 4, Episode 15(change of a dress) of Sex and [...]
The phrasal verb “drag someone or something into something” means to talk about someone or something when you are having an argument, especially when that person or thing is not connected with what you are arguing about.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) used the phrasal verb “drag into” [...]
If a situation is looking up, it is improving.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Patrick Duffy(Stephen Logan) used the phrasal verb “look up” while talking to Lesley-Anne Down (Jacqueline ‘Jackie’ Payne Marone) in the popular TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful” as shown below:
If you see through someone who is trying to deceive you, or if you see through someone’s behaviour, you realize what they are really like and what they are trying to do.
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The Bold and the Beautiful
Ashley Jones (Bridget Forrester) used the phrasal verb “see through” while talking to Katherine Kelly Lang [...]
The phrasal verb “turn in sb” or “turn sb in” means to take a criminal to the police.
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Prison Break
Amaury Nolasco (Fernando Sucre) and Wentworth Miller (Michael Scofield) used the phrasal verb “turn in” in season 1, episode 8 (The Old Head) of Prison Break as shown below:
The phrasal verb “wait up” means to stay awake because you are expecting someone to arrive.
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Closer
Clive Owen(Larry) used the phrasal verb “wait up” while talking to Julia Roberts(Anna) in the movie “Closer” by Mike Nichols as shown below:
If something that you have done to try to achieve something pays off, it is successful.
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24
William Devane (James Heller) used the phrasal verb “pay off” while talking to Kiefer Sutherland (Jack Bauer) in the season 4, episode 1 of the popular TV show “24” as shown below:
The phrasal verb “snap something up” means to buy or get something quickly and enthusiastically because it is cheap or exactly what you want.
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The Lake House (2006)
Christopher Plummer(Simon Wyler) used the phrasal verb ”snap it up” while talking to Keanu Reeves(Alex Wyler) in the movie “The Lake House” by Alejandro Agresti as shown below:
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If an organization, system, or agreement falls apart, it fails or stops working effectively.
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In Treatment
Dianne Wiest(Gina) and Gabriel Byrne(Paul) used the phrasal verb “fall apart” in the fifth episode of a popular TV show “In Treatment” which is about the patient-therapist relationship.