English Phrasal Verbs – 5
Save up
Meaning:
-
to
keep money so you can buy something in the future
-
same
as save
-
to keep
money so that you can buy something with it in the future
-
accumulate
money for future use
For Example:
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1. She is saving up to buy a house.
2. He is saving up to buy a car.
3. Sam spent all the money I had saved up for
our trip.
4. I am saving up for a new bike.
5. You save up the tokens to get a prize.
6. My parents are saving up for a trip to New York.
Pay off
Meaning:
-
Finish
paying money owed for something
-
to pay
the full amount of a debt
-
to pay
the whole amount of bill
-
to
return someone all the money that you have borrowed from them
-
to pay
in full or to pay off a loan
For Example:
1. He finally paid off his car loan.
2. It would take him the rest of his life to pay off that
loan.
3. I want to pay off my house loan.
4. We have to pay off the car loan on time.
5. I paid off my personal loan after three years.
Pay up
Meaning:
-
to
give someone money that you owe him/her
-
to pay
a debt in full, especially when the amount of money has been owed for a period
of time.
-
to pay
all the money that is owed or asked for
For Example:
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1. My roommate has not paid up rent
in five months.
2. He needs to pay up or move out.
3. After being taken to court, they finally paid up.
4. She paid up all her bills.
5. They send him several reminders to pay up his
debts.
6. It is a pity that the insurance company
didn’t pay up.
Pay back
Meaning:
-
return
owed money
-
to
return money that you borrowed from someone
-
to
give someone the same amount of money that you borrowed from them
-
to
punish someone for making you or someone else suffer
-
to do
something bad to someone because they have done something bad to you
For Example:
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1. Thanks for buying my tickets. I will pay you back on Friday.
2. You can pay back the loan over a period of two years.
3. I am able to pay you back next week.
4. She will pay us the rest back when she gets her wages.
5. I will pay him back for making me look like a fool in front of
everyone.
6. He knew very well how to pay them back for
the trouble they had caused.
Rip off
Meaning:
-
to
cheat someone, often by charging them too much money for something
-
to
charge someone too much money for something
-
charge
a ridiculous amount of money
-
charging
too much money for something
-
to
steal something
-
to
cheat somebody, by making them pay too much
For Example:
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1. Tourists sometimes worry taxi drivers will rip them off.
2. People complain of being ripped off by local cab driver.
3. That’s a rip off I am not paying that price.
4. All the ideas in the book are ripped off from other books.
5. This government is ripping off the country.
6. Thieves broke in and ripped off five computers.
Author:
Dr.M. Selvam
Assistant Professor of English
Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science
Coimbatore
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