Phrasal verbs dictionary

zakopčati, učvrstiti Do your coat up before you go outside. It’s snowing! 

odbaciti, ukloniti It’s time to do away with all of these old tax records. 

uljepšati što da se čini boljim negoli jest The company dressed up the figures a little.

fino se odijenuti, dotjerati se It’s a fancy restaurant so we have to dress up. maskirati se We have to dress up for the costume party.

odbaciti nekoga nekamo I have to drop my sister off at work before I come over. odnijeti nešto nekamo/nekome I’ll drop off her bag at your house in the morning. zadrijemati, osobito kada to nismo namjeravali Struggle as she might, she kept dropping off on the train.

zaostati, pasti na niže mjesto Andrea dropped back to third place when she fell off her bike. 

doći/svratiti nenajavljeno I might drop in/by/over for tea sometime this week. 

odustati od nekog predavanja, napustiti školu, fakultet, itd. I dropped out of Science because it was too difficult.

objedovati u restoranu, izaći na objed I don’t feel like cooking tonight. Let’s eat out. 

naposljetku učiniti/odlučiti što We ended up renting a movie instead of going to the theatre.  naposljetku završiti/naći se gdje They ended up in the suburbs in an unfamiliar part of town. 

-dobro što pogledati i procijeniti I saw the other poker players eyeing me up, trying to figure out if I was any good.

raspasti se (često na komadiće) My new dress fell apart in the washing machine. slomiti se, rastrojiti se (psihički) He fell apart when his girfriend left him.

pasti (na pod/na tlo) The picture that you hung up last night fell down this morning. 

ispasti (iz čega), ispadati (kosa, zubi) The money must have fallen out of my pocket. His hair started to fall out when he was only 35. 

shvatiti, odgonetnuti, riješiti, naći odgovor I need to figure out how to fit the piano and the bookshelf in this room.