to clear up: to make understandable (also: to straighten out); to become sunny
– The teacher tried to clear up our confusion about the meaning of the difficult paragraph in the reading.
– It’s rather cloudy this morning. Do you think that it will clear up later?
to pull off: to succeed in doing something difficult; to exit to the side of a highway Examples of TO PULL OF The group of investors pulled off a big deal by buying half the stock in that company. I wonder how they pulled it off before the company could prevent it. The motorist pulled…
to know by sight: to recognize Examples of TO KNOW BY SIGHT I had a look around but as Jarrod’s Dad is the only one I know by sight it was a bit of a forlorn hope. If everybody doesn’t know everybody by name they’ll certainly know each other by sight.
to fool around: to waste time (also: to screw around); to joke, not to be serious Examples of TO FOOL AROUND – The problem doesn’t seem to be that participants are bored and fooling around.– I’ve been fooling around with the 5mx and find it a generally agreeable machine.
to come across: to meet or find unexpectedly (also: to run across); to be perceived or judged as (also: to come off) Examples of TO COME ACROSS A woman walking her dog came across a butchered body left on a pile of branches. I came across this story out of Georgia on a National Park…
to drop (someone) a line: to write a note to someone Examples of TO DROP A LINE Please feel free to drop me a line with any of your thoughts regarding the page. I’ll try to get it up tomorrow, and will drop you a line when it’s available.
to turn around: to move or face in the opposite direction (S); to completelychange the condition of (S) Examples of TURN AROUND We need to turn around our terrible performance this year. The restaurant was closed and so we had to turn around and go home.