12 Emotional English Phrasal Verbs: lash out, storm off, sink in...

now.

I've made many videos about phrasal verbs, but in the past I used to present the

phrasal

verbs to you in sets, like put on, put in, put out, put through, and so on, to make

sure

you understand all the different uses of it.

What I want to do today, I want to start showing you phrasal verbs in particular

contexts that

they're used.

And the reason it's important to know this is because native speakers, we use phrasal

verbs all the time.

It's just part of everyday vocabulary, right?

And I know that it's very difficult to learn phrasal verbs without actually knowing

their

meaning first, and then just memorizing them.

So, again, just in case you're not familiar with phrasal verbs, it's a verb with what

looks like a preposition, it's actually a particle, but a verb and preposition that

together create a different meaning than the two words individually.

Okay?

Let's start with "lash out".

What does it mean to "lash out"?

So, if somebody hears some bad news or somebody...

You did something bad to somebody, their reaction, their emotional reaction to that

situation

or that action might be to attack you.

Right?

Okay?

They will...

And not only you, they will attack everybody.

But "lash out" basically means, like, lash out everywhere, in all directions.

They don't care who they attack, and it could be a physical attack, like they'll hit

you,

or it could be a verbal attack.

They'll yell at you, they'll swear at you, they'll curse you, and they'll most likely

do it to everybody who comes in contact with them.

It's a very emotional, very rage reaction to whatever happened.

Okay?

So, next we're going to look at "shut down".

Now, some people, they lash out, they get very angry, they get very responsive.