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English also has phrasal verbs, which are basically a group of inconsistent, illogical idioms that you need to learn by heart in order to understand them. For
by rvba 4y ago
English also has phrasal verbs, which are basically a group of inconsistent, illogical idioms that you need to learn by heart in order to understand them.
For example:
"come around" (apparently change your mind?)
"come down on" (apparently this means "attack or punish harshly", not oral sex)
"come down with" (get sick with some disease, ok you go down because you lay in bed, although you dont lie "on" the bed)
"come up" (you come up with new ideas, for example that one can "calm down"; why up and down?)
There are tons of those phrasal verbs that are easy to natives, but those are so illogical who has to learn them. For example when Tony Soprano tells to "do someone in", maybe you can figure it out from the context, but without context it is just a mess.