Learn 16 Christmas phrasal verbs! Hang up meaning, put up meaning, take down meaning. You can use festive phrasal verbs in your English conversations throughout the holiday season. Enjoy your English!
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List of Christmas Phrasal Verbs
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16 Christmas Phrasal Verbs
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look forward to
Meaning: to wait for something with pleasure
Are you looking forward to the holiday season or are you feeling a little grinch-like?
hang up
Meaning: to fix something or secure something somewhere from the top of the object
Last year we had a large tree, the whole family was helping my father to dress the tree and hang up decorations.
put up
Meaning: to place something somewhere in an upright position so everybody can see it
When do you usually put your Christmas tree up?
build up
Meaning: to increase gradually
The excitement builds up in anticipation of the holiday season ahead.
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16 Christmas Phrasal Verbs
dress up
Meaning: to put on clothes that are more formal than you usually wear or to put on a special costume that makes you look like someone/something else
Last Christmas we dressed up our baby son in a Buddy the Elf costume.
come down
Meaning: to descend from a higher level
Father Christmas doesn’t go through the door, he comes down the chimney on Christmas eve.
sing along
Meaning: to sing a song with someone who is already singing
We have the radio on and we are singing along the Christmas songs.
meet up
Meaning: to meet with somebody in order to do something
We should meet up before Christmas.
16 Christmas Phrasal Verbs
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give out
Meaning: to distribute something among a group of people
Santa was about to head off on his sleigh to give out presents on Christmas Eve.
give up
Meaning: to stop doing something, to quit, for example, a bad habit
Are you going to give up smoking in the new year?
wrap up
Meaning: to cover something completely by putting paper or other material around it
Many people love wrapping up Christmas presents in a pretty way.
wrap up phrasal verb meaning
end up
Meaning: to reach a particular place or situation, often somewhere you don’t intend to be
Later we went out to see the City lit up by the Christmas lights and it was not long before we ended up in a nightclub.
Christmas Phrasal Verbs
go out
Meaning: take part in a social activity outside the home
People are more likely to go out before Christmas.
bump into
Meaning: to meet someone by chance
Last Saturday I bumped into my college friend when I was doing my Christmas shopping.
put off
Meaning: to delay, to postpone
Let’s be honest, we all put off buying presents until the last minute.
take down
Meaning: to remove something that was previously put up
It is considered unlucky to take down your decorations before the 12th day of Christmas.
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