Home

Phrasal Verb - Pick Up

Average: 4 (3 votes)
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 00:39 — Chris McCarthy

This joke is based on the double meaning of the idiom pick up:

1 - To pick up - To lift someone or something using your hands:
"You dropped your pen on the floor. Let me pick it up for you."

2 - To pick up - To improve or increase:
"Her English began to pick up after she started to learn English with EC."

Link: Phrasal Verb 'Put One's Foot Down'

Bookmark/Search this post with:
  • Delicious
  • Digg
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Yahoo

Comments

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 06:57 — Yura

Re: grivna - nice phrasl verb

Nice phrasal verb - nice examples. Smile
Reading Danny's stories is picking up my knowledge. Wink
Thank you Cris for your creative job!!! Applause

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 20:17 — peace_b_upon_u

thx..

it's a great lesson, thx Smile

Sun, 10/11/2009 - 21:57 — over

pick up

I need to pick up my English Grammar before the exam. But due to backache I prefered not to lean over and went to the school without this book. So I left it on the floor.

I tried to joke Smile

Have a good begining of the week!

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:10 — Anastasiya_Inoz

one more meaning

is it right to use this verb in the meaning: "are you going to pick me up from home or we meet at the cafe?

Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:21 — ynastia

Pick up

A laugh a minute Smile the above cartoon makes me burst out laughing. Yeah. I have my fill of this economic crisis. Nothing left but not to take it seriously. I hope we'll see the economics of all countries picking up soon. Thank you for the out of the ordinary and interesting lesson.

Thu, 01/20/2011 - 15:40 — Manish2811

pick up

*After having so much training by professional teacher my drum playing has picked up than before

 THANX CHRIS