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Phrasal Verbs

The document discusses different phrases related to the five senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. It provides examples of idioms and phrases using words like touch, look, smell, taste, hear, and listen and explains their meanings.

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Phrasal Verbs

The document discusses different phrases related to the five senses of touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. It provides examples of idioms and phrases using words like touch, look, smell, taste, hear, and listen and explains their meanings.

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SENSE OF TOUCH

TOUCH
● touch down - When an aircraft touches down,
it lands.
● touch up - to improve something by making
small changes or additions
● touch on - to mention a subject quickly when
speaking or writing about another subject
SENSE OF TOUCH
FEEL
● feel up to - to have the energy to do something
● feel for - to experience sympathy and sadness for
someone because they are suffering
● feel like - to seem to be something, or (esp. of
weather) to seem likely to do something
● feel out - to try to get information from someone or
from a situation without asking direct questions
SENSE OF SIGHT
LOOK
● look around - to visit a place and look at the
things in it
● look after - to take care of or be in charge of
something
● look ahead - to think about what will happen in
the future and plan for these events
● look at - to think about a subject carefully so that
you can make a decision about it
SENSE OF SIGHT
LOOK
● look back - to think about something that happened
in the past
● look down on - to think that you are better than
someone
● look forward to - to feel pleased and excited about
something that is going to happen
● look into - to try to find out about something
● look out - to watch what is happening and be careful
SENSE OF SIGHT
SEE
● see to - to do something that has to be done
● see through - to realize that someone is trying to
deceive you to get an advantage, or that someone's
behaviour is intended to deceive you, and to understand
the truth about the situation
● see beyond - to perceive or understand things that
happen or exist outside the limits or scope of something
● see off - to go to the place that someone is leaving from
in order to say goodbye to them
SENSE OF SMELL
SMELL
● smell of - to have the odor of something due to its
presence
● smell out - to discover where something or someone is
by smelling

SNIFF
● sniff at - to show disapproval or a low opinion of
something
● sniff out - to search for and detect or discover something
SENSE OF TASTE
TASTE
● taste of - to elicit the same

sensations of flavor in one's mouth


as something else
SENSE OF HEARING
HEAR
● hear of - to know/learn of someone or something;
to consider something or allow something
(to happen). In this usage, the phrase is typically
used negatively to emphasize that one will not
consider or allow something to happen.
● hear out - to listen to someone until they have
said everything they want to say
SENSE OF HEARING
LISTEN
● listen in - to attend something so that one may
listen to it without participating directly; to listen to or
overhear a conversation that one is not supposed to
be a part of; to eavesdrop (on someone or
something).
● listen out for - to make an effort to hear a noise
that you are expecting

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