Posted by John on Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 4:58am.
See http://www.class.uidaho.edu/Engl201/sentence_types/Two-word_verbs.htm
It is a pair of words (one of which is often a verb and then other a preposition) which together represent a type of activity that could be represented by a different single word.
Example: The marriage broke up.
Here's a really good website that can help with these. They're referred to as "phrasal verbs" because they are made up of more than one word!
http://www.eslcafe.com/pv/
If you click on the letter B and then scroll down, you'll find the one that DrWLS referred to above.
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