Episode 9: Phrasal Verbs for Business IV
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Here’s the fourth part of the phrasal verbs series.  I hope you find it useful and please let me know if you have any questions. Here is the full transcript: Phrasal verbs for business, part four. Hi there. I’m Paul Urwin, and welcome to the Business English Community Podcast, where the world of business meets the English language. We discuss culture, strategies, techniques, vocabulary, grammar, and much, much more. Find out more at businessenglishcommunity.com. Hi there. Paul here, and welcome to episode nine of the Business English Community Podcast. In this episode, we are going to be continuing with the series on phrasal verbs. First of all, if you haven’t signed up for your free training, completely free, I recommend that you visit the Business English Community website, that’s businessenglishcommunity.com, and go and get your free training. There’s also something else that’s pretty important that I wanted to share with you, and that is the fact that you can read exactly what I am saying in this podcast at the same time as you are listening. That is known as a transcript, an audio transcript, the text that goes along with this audio. It’s completely free, and you can find it on the website. Just go to the podcast section at the top, find the podcast that you are listening to. If you’re listening to it on the website already, you will see the text there, but if you are listening on iTunes, or Stitcher, or somewhere else, just go to the website and find the text, and you can follow through exactly what I am saying at the same time as I’m saying it, so very, very useful for many students, and again, completely free. So, worth checking that out. Right, well let’s get started with this week’s 10 phrasal verbs. Number one is to screw up, to screw up. Well, this is definitely an informal phrasal verb, and to screw up means to make a bad mistake or a significant mistake, to mismanage something, or to mishandle something, to put it simply, to do something wrong or to make a pretty bad mistake. So let me give you an example. I gave you one simple job to do and you just screwed it up completely. I gave you one simple job to do and you just screwed it up completely. So that’s number one, to screw up. Number two, to zero in on, to zero in on. Well, if you are zeroing in on something, well, you are focusing on something. You are really highlighting, or directing your efforts, towards a particular topic or a particular issue. The authorities have really zeroed in on unethical selling practices. The authorities have really zeroed in on unethical selling practices. They have focused on those unethical selling practices. They’ve zeroed in on them. So that’s number two, to zero in on. Number three, to run into. Well, this is another one of those polysemous phrasal verbs. It can have several different meanings, and the first one is to meet someone or to come across something by chance. So, I ran into Jackie from HR the other day. I ran into Jackie from HR the other day. It doesn’t mean that you’re actually physically running. It means that you were perhaps out and about somewhere, and that you encountered her, or you met her, by chance. I ran into Jackie from HR the other day, Jackie from human resources. It can also mean to reach a particular amount, to run into. The level of debt is incredible. It could run into millions. The level of debt is incredible. It could run into millions. So that’s to reach a particular amount, to run into. And it can also mean to start to have difficulties or problems. The project started well, but it has run into lots of issues this year. The project started well, but it has run into lots of issues this year. That’s number three, to run into. It can mean to meet someone or something by chance, to reach a particular amount, or to start to have difficulties or problems. Numbe
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