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Hello, podcast plus members, i am still here. I'm just about surviving. You're listening to the deep dive into episode. What number was it? Oh, my brain is not working. I am so groggy and yucky that even my brain has given up. Anyway, this is the deep dive into the common cold episode, where I sound like I have a peg on my nose, and, different to the other deep dives, this is only going to focus on five phrasal verbs that I used within the common cold episode, because I'm kind of dead on my feet and I'm not able to work for much longer. I need to go and lie down. So, without further ado, let's have a look at these five phrasal verbs.

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So the first phrasal verb I picked out was the point where I talked about cutting out sugar. I said if you are cutting out sugar, then you might wake up full of energy the next day. So, to cut something out. Now, this is a phrasal verb I use often, especially because I edit a lot. So when I'm editing videos or editing audio or editing an image, there's often a time when I need to cut something out, and this means to remove something from a wider thing. So when it comes to cutting out sugar, i'm talking about my diet, of all the food that I consume in a day. I'm going to try and remove from that diet sugar. I'll leave everything else, but just take away the sugar. So I'm going to cut out sugar and this is quite usually, quite drastic. So if I'm cutting out sugar, that's all sugar. That suggests all the sugar will be removed. If you want to say that you want to reduce the amount of sugar that you are eating, then you would use a different phrasal verb. You'd use cut down and you'd actually say cut down on. I'm trying to cut down on sugar, or I'm trying to cut down on caffeine, or I'm trying to cut down on alcohol. So that just means you're not entirely removing it, you're just reducing it to cut down on. But if you're removing it completely, you'd say cut out.

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Now I mentioned cutting things out of videos and audios. This will be when you remove a section. So it might be that I decided to play a clip from a FIFA game. This is something that actually happened to me. I was trying to explain what the football commentators were saying during like a World Cup match or a European Championship match, and I played a few seconds of a clip from the football match So you could hear the commentator. And then they explained what the commentator was actually saying and I got in trouble. I think I got a copyright strike for that one. It was quite harsh. I tried to appeal, but it didn't work. I said, look, i will happily cut out the moment that I included of the commentator. I will cut that bit out, i will remove it completely from the video, but please don't give me a copyright strike, please don't remove my entire lesson. But it didn't work. They didn't want to know, they were mean. They don't care about education, they only care about money and sport. Anyway, i should cut it out and carry on, so you can also.

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You can also say cut it out as like a direction, as an order, if someone's doing something that you don't like. So if they're saying something that's just frustrating you and you want them to stop, you might say cut it out. If someone's whinging, crying, moaning Oh, my feet hurt. We've been walking for ages. When are we going to get there? You said this would be fun. This is not fun. This is boring. Oh, cut it out. Will you stop moaning? So remove all the moaning, because it's doing my head in, it's annoying me, cut it out.

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What else would we use? cut out? Well, we physically cut things out with a pair of scissors. If you have a picture, let's say, of a circle, you've printed a circle onto a rectangular piece of paper. But you want the piece of paper to be the same shape as the image, the circle. So you take your scissors and you cut around the line until the paper is no longer rectangular, but now it is circular, so you've cut out the circle.

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Sometimes, if you are really angry with someone and you don't like the fact that they appear in a picture that you do really like, sometimes we take the scissors to that photograph and we cut that person out. That shows that we really feel frustrated with them. We're really angry with them. I've cut you out of this photo. You'll never be in there again. That's interesting because we metaphorically use cut someone out when we exclude them from our lives.

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So if I no longer want someone in my life, say an ex-boyfriend, he was horrible to me, we split up and I don't want to speak to him ever again, i could say I've cut him out, I'm not going to speak to him again. We also use say cut off to cut someone off, but that's slightly different. I'll come to that another time. But to cut them out of your life, you might cut someone out of your will. So if I for some reason in the future I'm sure it will never happen but if I have a terrible argument with Jacob, my eldest son, and he upsets me beyond repair he can't fix it, it can't be forgiven then I might decide that I don't want to leave him anything in my will, so when I die he mustn't get anything. Of course this is not true and this, hopefully, would never be the case. My love for him is unconditional. But if it were the case that I decided to punish him in that way, then I would cut him out of my will. I would remove him from my will and say when I die he gets nothing. So to cut someone out of your will or to cut someone out of your life Okay, that was very positive. Let's move on from cutting things out to hang on.

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Hang on This is a really common phrasal verb. You've probably heard it before. If you're not already using it, then I encourage you to try and get this phrasal verb into your vocabulary. You can use this instead of saying wait. So it just means wait, hold what you're saying, or hold the thought. Just wait for a second. Hang on, what are you saying? Hang on, what was that phrase you just used? Hang on, what was that verb you just used? Hang on, that's an unusual collocation. Or hang on for a minute, i'm just going to grab my coat. Or hang on a minute, i just need to answer this phone call. So a very common phrasal verb, meaning wait, that you should try to use if you're not already using it. All right, you don't have to hang on any longer. Let's move on to the next phrasal verb. So moving on. We have worked out Now. I used this particular phrasal verb when I was talking about Jacob not being able to blow his nose. I said he hasn't worked out the skill of blowing his nose yet.

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So to work something out is like to resolve a problem or to learn a skill or to understand something. So it usually involves some form of problem that you have to solve or resolve, for example, if we are falling out. To fall out is to argue and to no longer be friendly with one another. If you and I have fallen out and I want to be friends with you again, then I would have to approach you and ask if we could work out our differences. Say to you look, this is a problem. I want to be your friend, but we've had this argument, this really bad argument, and I want to work it out. I want us to be friends, so let's work it out, and then we try to resolve our problem. If you are sitting down with a crossword or a maths problem or some sort of quiz, you need to try and work out the answers. If you don't know them instantly, then you'll have to think about it for a while, maybe scribble down some words or numbers and do some working out to try and solve the problem.

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Sometimes I have to work out how to get my boys to eat vegetables. This is a problem. They don't eat enough veg, so I have to work out how I can make vegetables either invisible or interesting enough for them to put in their mouths. So often I will hide vegetables in cooking sauces or muffins, or disguise it with cheese Cheese is always a good one Or in smoothies. Or I might just present it openly but cook it in a way where it's flavoursome, yummy. Well, flavoursome and yummy, and the same thing, but fun. So they'll want to try it. So I have to work out that problem.

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I then said, for the same reason he hasn't cottoned on in terms of blowing his nose, he hasn't cottoned on. I can't remember what the full sentence was, but to cotton onto something is to realise or to come to understand something. So, for example, if we are planning a surprise trip, so let's say it's your birthday and you think that we haven't organised anything for your birthday, you feel a bit down about it. And then on your birthday we wake up and I say to you, hey, i'm going to go to town, but I know you want the car today, or you might want the car today. Do you mind just dropping me off in town? Do you mind jumping in the car with me and dropping me off in town?

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And you think, oh, that's a bit weird. She's never asked me to drop her off before. To drop someone off is to take somewhere, someone to where they need to be, and leave them there. So you think that's weird. Anna never asks me to drop her off. She would normally get the bus or ride her bike. This is weird, but you haven't realized that actually what I'm doing is I'm being very sneaky and I'm trying to get you to come into town without telling you something exciting is about to happen.

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When we arrive in town, instead of jumping out of the car saying thank you and goodbye, i say all. Actually I need your advice on this coat that I'm going to buy. Should we just park up and then could you come into the store with me And take a look at this coat that I'm thinking about buying? it's really expensive and I don't want to waste my money, so I'd love your opinion. And you think this is weird. And it has never asked my advice on fashion before. She's never asked my advice on anything before. She normally knows exactly what she wants. This is strange, but you still don't think maybe something exciting is about to happen. Maybe they've secretly organized a surprise for me. You still haven't cotton on.

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And then we get into the shopping center. You suddenly see three people that you know, who don't live in this town, who you'd never seen in this town before, and they say hello. They look a bit shocked and surprised because they were supposed to be in the secret meeting place and they're late. They look at you oh hello, fancy seeing you here. And you think that's really weird. They don't live in this town. They never come to this town. What are they doing here in this shopping center? But you still don't cotton on, you still don't realize we're organizing something for you, and it's only when you step into this. I know, let's say it's a restaurant. So when you step into the restaurant and you see the banner saying happy birthday with your name on it and everyone is there that you know and love and they all shout surprise, only then Do you realize, only then do you cotton on. That's what's been happening all along, okay. So that's a really great phrase of her to know to cotton on, okay.

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The last one is to not off. This is very simple. To not off means the moment where you fall asleep, all the sleep. So we sometimes say that we not off when it's accidental. So I was sitting in the armchair watching my favorite program and I know did off. It was unexpected, but I know did off, or it could be intentional. I was lying in bed trying to get to sleep, but I didn't not off until midnight. In fact, last night I literally, truth be told, i didn't not off until about one o'clock in the morning. It was very frustrating. So to not off is to go to sleep and I think we use not Because usually when you are in an upright position, so you're sitting, your head starts to lol up and down as you're starting to fall asleep, but then you catch yourself and wake up and then your head nods again.

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So it looks like you're nodding your head in an up down motion to agree oh, yes, yes, yes, we not. When we agree, yes, yes, yes. So to not off, not off, your head relaxes and you fall asleep to not off. Okay, a quick recap we had cutting out hang on, work out cotton on and not off. So here's a little quiz for you, because I think you like a little quiz. I haven't really prepared this, but let's do it together.

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Which phrase of verb would you use if you were talking about solving a problem? you are trying to what a problem Work out? you have to work out a problem. So we work out our differences, for example, or work out the crossword puzzle. It's so hard I can't work it out.

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Which phrase of her would you use when talking about removing a person from your will? I hate him. I'm going to Him from my will. This is actually a separable phrase of her, so him would come between the two words Cut out. I'm going to cut him out of my will. Oh dear, which phrase of her would you use if you are trying to go to sleep at the moment? you go to sleep, you Not off. Yes, yes, yes. And if you don't realize something, then you haven't Cottoned on, absolutely and all. If I need you to just wait a minute, i'd say all. Could you Hang on? Did you get them all right? Hopefully all right. Thank you so much for joining me for this exclusive plus member podcast. I do hope you found it useful and until next time, take care of yourself, don't get a cold. And goodbye.