Category: Languages
Created by: marija.horvat
Number of Blossarys: 21
To know about, to be familiar with. It can be used in the meaning "to consider", but in that meaning it is always used in the negative. Example: When I asked for the direction to the Oak Street, the ...
To receive news or information from. "To hear from" is used for receiving the letter, phone call, etc., from a person or organization. Example: Have you heard from the company about that ...
To arrange matters the way one wants (especially when someone else doesn't want the same way). Example: My brother always wants to have his way, but this time our parents said that we could do ...
To complete the form. This idiom is very similar to the idiom "fill in". "To fill in" refers to completing various parts of form, while to fill out refers to completing a form as ...
To write answers in; to inform, to tell. This idiom is separable. For the second part of the definition, the idiom can be followed by the preposition on and the information that someone is ...
To have a desire to, to want to consider. This idiom is usually followed by the gerund (the -ing form of the verb used as a noun). Example: I don't feel like going out tonight. Let's stay at ...
To eat at home/ to eat in a restaurant. Examples: I'm to tired to go out. Let's eat in again tonight. When you eat out, what restaurant do you generally go to?