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Stop sounding casual at work and start speaking like a pro. In this lesson, we master 15 essential business phrasal verbs – like “iron out”, “measure up”, and “pencil in” – that will instantly boost your professional vocabulary and help you advance your career. Watch now to level up your English for the professional world. https://www.engvid.com/15-english-phrasal-verbs-to-sound-professional-at-work/
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In this lesson:
0:00 Business Phrasal Verbs
1:13 iron out
1:43 brush up on
2:16 weigh in
2:51 wrap up
3:14 burn out
3:56 measure up
4:56 sift/comb through
6:03 branch out
6:29 wade out (into)
7:23 zero in on
7:51 pencil in
8:48 sign off
Transcript:
Hi, everybody. Welcome to www.engvid.com. I'm Adam. In today's video, I want to talk to you about phrasal verbs, and I also want to make sure that everybody understands that phrasal verbs are not just casual language. You can use phrasal verbs in many situations, including academic, but especially in business contexts. So today, we're going to look at a bunch of business phrasal verbs.
Now, again, just a little reminder, what is a phrasal verb? It's a verb and a preposition that when they are joined together often have other meanings, or can have more than one meaning. So it's a bit of a collocation and an idiomatic language. So today, we're going to look at iron out, brush up on, weigh in, or sometimes weigh in with something, wrap up, burn out, measure up, sift through or comb through, branch out, wade out, zero in on, pencil in, draw up, and sign off or sign off on something. So we're going to go through each one. I'll give you some... A little bit of an explanation and a sample, right?
So, to iron out, it's just like you would iron your shirt, except in a business context, you know, you're having negotiations, for example, and you have some... Maybe some problems, some disagreements, or some things don't really work, but little minor things. They're sort of like wrinkles on a shirt. So you discuss, you make some changes, and you iron them out. You get rid of the little problems, just like you would iron out wrinkles in your shirt. Yeah, okay, so that's it.
So brush up on. To brush up on means to a little bit... Do a bit of a review on something and make sure you're a bit familiar with it or comfortable with something. Again, so in a business context, before you go to your meeting, brush up a little bit on your presentation skills, or brush up on your English if you're going to do a presentation in English. Just brush up on it, just review a little bit, make sure you have all the little particular skills you need just in case you have to use them for whatever.
To weigh in. So you don't weigh, like you put yourself on a scale and you weigh yourself, but to weigh in means to add or contribute, usually your opinion or your thoughts. So you weigh in with... So you weigh in with an idea or with a proposal, so what you're contributing or what you're adding to the conversation. But otherwise, in a meeting, you're... Everybody's sitting around a table, the manager will ask everybody to weigh in with their ideas about whatever the topic is for the day. Okay, not a big deal.
Wrap up. So when I finish this video, I will wrap it up by telling you to, you know, like my video, subscribe to the channel, and so on. So to wrap up means to close, to finish something. Just like you would wrap a gift, that's the last thing you do with the gift. You wrap up a meeting, you wrap up a proposal, you wrap up some paperwork, etc.
Burn out. If you're working too much, then you might feel at some point that you just have no energy and you can't think well, no mental energy, no physical energy, and you just can't do anything anymore. You have to stop, you have to rest, or you have to quit your job. So for a lot of people, they burn out means they just can't do something anymore. Now, there's different degrees, different levels of burning out. Some people burn out and they just have to quit their job. Other people just burn out today and they have to take a little break, so it depends. The key is don't burn out, because you don't want to do that, right? Because it means you've a little bit melted your brain, maybe.
Measure up. So again, to measure like the length, height, width, your weight, etc. But to measure up means to reach a certain level of something, right? Like a quality, or qualifications, or all kinds of different levels. So when you go for a job interview, what they are actually doing is measuring you up. They're seeing like do you have enough skills, do you have enough background, are you a nice person? […]