Idioms and phrasal verbs: describing people II

Answer back

To reply impertinently

Ask out

To invite somebody, especially on a date

Break up / Split up

To end a relationship

Bring out

To evoke, or emphasize a particular quality.

Bring together

Create a situation in which people meet and do something together, especially when they would not usually do so

Bump into Run into

To collide with or to meet by chance

Cancel out

To neutralize the effect of something

Come between

To affect negatively

Crowd around

Move to a particular place at the same timeas a lot of other people.

Go together

Used when twothings exist together; whentwo things lookgood, natural orattractive in combination.

Meet up

To meet somebody by arrangement (or not)

Open up

- Talk more about personal feelings- Open a locked door, container…- Make it easier to travel or do business in a country

Pick on

To make fun of somebody

Sound out

To question and listen attentively in order to discover a person's opinion, especially by using indirect conversational remarks

Take after

To resemble in appearance or habit

Take to

To begin as a new practice or habit