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09/11/2026

HAVE AN EDGE is about a specific advantage:
Have an edge over someone 𝐒𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐬 𝐨𝐟 (specific thing)
Have an edge over someone 𝐰𝐑𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 (specific thing)

Better in everything:
X is better than Y overall
X is better than Y across the board
X beats Y hands down

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π†πžπ­ 𝐒𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐜π₯𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - π…π«πžπž
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09/09/2026

Throwback to when I had hair and a crappy microphone.

CAN - ability: present and future

COULD
1. Ability: past
2. Conditional
3. Polite requests
4. Possibilities ~ Might
5. REPORTED SPEECH!!!!

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π†πžπ­ 𝐒𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐜π₯𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - π…π«πžπž
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09/07/2026

When UP makes no sense: it's colloquial. It adds a sense of quick, easy, or enthusiastic to normal verbs without changing the meaning at all.

Fry it up
Eat up
Drink up

These are not technically phrasal verbs, because there is no change in meaning. It's just how we simple people talk πŸ€ πŸ˜…

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π†πžπ­ 𝐒𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐜π₯𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - π…π«πžπž
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09/06/2026

UP - directional sense

Bring up child
Bring up topic
Pick up skills / languages
Take up time
Take up space
X makes up Y
Y is made up of X

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09/05/2026

UP - sense of beginning or creating

Take up hobbies
Make up stories
Set up systems and accounts
Set up furniture
Set someone up

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π†πžπ­ 𝐒𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐜π₯𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - π…π«πžπž
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09/04/2026

UP - sense of completion

Fill up the tank
Load up on x
Stock up on x
Top up my drink
Use up
Finish up
Wrap up
Burn up
Clean up
Dry up
End up

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09/02/2026

Call out

1. Literal - raise your voice
2. Call someone out on/for something - point out that they are wrong
3. Call out from work ~ Call in sick

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π†πžπ­ 𝐒𝐧𝐟𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐜π₯𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 - π…π«πžπž
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08/31/2026

Hand over - Authoritative, casual register
Hand off - Work flow
Turn over - Legal procedures, formal register

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08/30/2026

Sometimes it just doesn't make senseπŸ˜…πŸ€·πŸΌβ€β™€οΈ

Hang out
Work out a problem
Work out (in the gym)
Find out

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08/29/2026

Out - outward movement, leaving, escaping

Get out
Get out of doing something
Give out
Get out of the house
Invite someone out
Take someone out
Ask someone ask
Map out - ok ok, this one is not about leaving, but it IS outward movement in the sense of building your plan πŸ—ΊοΈ

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