AEE 2386: Wait Up! English Phrasal Verbs for Softening Imperatives

All Ears English Podcast

Lindsay McMahon

Education, Language Learning, Business

4.6 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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0:00.0	This is an all ears English podcast, episode 2386. Wait up. English phrasal verbs for softening
0:07.8	imperatives. Welcome to the all ears English podcast downloaded more than 200 million times. Are you
0:17.7	feeling stuck with your English? We'll show you how to become fearless and fluent by
0:23.7	focusing on connection, not perfection, with your American host, Aubrey Carter, the IELTS
0:30.9	Wiz, and Lindsay McMahon, the English adventurer, coming to you from Arizona and Colorado USA.
0:41.0	And to get your transcripts delivered by email every week, go to all-earsenglish.com
0:47.3	forward slash subscribe.
0:51.8	When it comes to verbs, how and when do you add the preposition up to make it more casual?
0:58.1	Today get the ins and outs of adding up to a verb in English.
1:04.5	Picture a hash brown.
1:07.3	Yep.
1:08.6	There it is.
1:10.2	Right there. Would you look at that? A golden oval of crispy deliciousness.
1:16.3	From where? Well, you already know. Breakfast, done properly.
1:23.1	Serve until 11 a.m.
1:24.6	Hello, Aubrey. How's it going today? I'm great, Lindsay. How are you? Good, good. Have you ever heard anyone say the expression,
1:33.8	wait up? Wait up? Absolutely. Yes, I say this too. My husband, a lot, he is notorious for
1:41.6	walking like six steps ahead of me wherever we're going. We'll get out of the car
1:45.5	and he's like headed to the restaurant. I'll be like, wait up. Like hold my hand while we're walking.
1:49.8	He just doesn't notice. He's just like hurrying to get wherever we're going. I am in the same
1:54.1	situation with my partner. And this came up. I think when I was in New York and my partner also walks a lot faster than I do. And I remember we came out of a shop
2:03.2	and I said, hey, wait up. Hey, wait up. Right. And I'm running to try to keep up here.
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