play on
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to continue to play a game, often after someone has been injured or has done something that is not allowed by the rules
to use a situation or emotions such as fear or worry in order to get what you want
She plays on the fact that people feel sorry for her.
We explained that we were compiling a list of records for Owen to play on Tuesday morning.
We played on in spite of the rain.
Which was a blow because I had been planning to play on my bike with Douglas Wilson from down the road.
`You are a member of the Guild of Jesus Mass. Every year they put a play on at Saint Holy Cross Church.
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play out
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
if an event or situation is played out in a particular way, it happens in that way
if you play out a situation, you pretend that it is really happening
to continue to play a sport until the end of a particular period
to develop or end in a particular way
Children often play out quite violent scenes.
His career as a writer was played out against a background of alcoholism.
She had come this far, she decided, so she might as well play out the drama to the end.
She played out the rest of her career in America.
She was moving at her old, leisurely pace, as though they had all the time in the world to play out the last reel of this tragedy.
There are only so many times you can play out the old flesh games without losing interest in them.
They disagreed violently, and no one knew how the situation would play out.
We may as well play out this hand while we're waiting for him,' the voice said.
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play up
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to emphasize or make something or someone seem more important, impressive, or better than they really are.
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play up to
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to behave in a very friendly or polite way to someone because you want them to like you or to do something for you
He took great pains to play up to Joan’s mother.
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play upon
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
exploit a weakness
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play with
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
if you play with words or ideas, you use them in a clever and funny way
to keep touching something, especially because you are bored
to masturbate
Stop playing with your hair!
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plead out
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
plead guilty to get a reduced sentence or fine
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plod along
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to progress at a very slow steady rate
He’s still plodding along with his novel.
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plonk down
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to leave someone somewhere to do this
to sit or lie down on something in a careless or noisy way
Dave plonked the kids in front of the TV and disappeared upstairs.
She plonked herself firmly down on the bed.
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plop down
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to sit down carelessly but gently
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plough ahead
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to continue to do something that may involve problems or that other people are opposing
Their decision to plough ahead before safety checks had been made was strongly criticized.
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plough back
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to put any profits made by a business back into it in order to make it more successful
All the money we raise is ploughed back into our work.
It's being ploughed back into the business, it seems.
Most of the profits, it said, had been ploughed back into defence programmes.
Once its costs are taken care of, any surplus is ploughed back into the business.
The rest of their profits, an overwhelming sum of money in good times, had to be ploughed back into the business.
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plough into
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to crash into someone or something with force, especially because you are moving or driving too quickly or in a careless or uncontrolled way
to invest a lot of money in something in order to improve it or make it successful
A spokesman insisted money was being ploughed into combating youth crime.
He says the money is ploughed into his philanthropic ventures.
If this money was ploughed into patient care, life expectancy would soar.
Last year the government ploughed more than £80 million into road repairs.
Luckily no one was hurt when their car ploughed into a tree.
That money should be ploughed into the system to help the economy.
The government insists the money will be ploughed into infrastructure.
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plough on
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to continue doing something that takes a lot of effort or is likely to cause you problems
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plough through
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to crash through something or a group of people with force, especially because you are moving or driving too quickly or in a careless or uncontrolled way
to finish something that takes a long time and is difficult or boring
to move through something with a lot of difficulty
A MAN chased by police died when his car ploughed through a garden wall.
Do you waste too much time ploughing through paperwork?
The car mounted the grass verge and ploughed through the safety barrier.
The car ploughed through the dark with the three of us snoring away.
This generally means ploughing through buildings to leap ahead.
Video has emerged on social media of tanks ploughing through cars with people still in them.
We had been ploughing through this mud for almost an hour now.
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plough up
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
to damage the surface of the ground by walking or driving over it too much
to turn over the grass surface of a field with a plough in order to use the field for growing crops
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plow back
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
re-invest money you have made into a business
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plow into
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
collide into at speed
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plow on
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
continue doing something you don't want to
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs
plow through
N/A
Chưa có nghĩa tiếng Việt.
eat a big meal
move through somewhere where there is little space or there are obstacles
read something that is difficult or takes a lot of time
Source: WithEnglishWeCan/generated-english-phrasal-verbs