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Meaning of “give up”

just give up is that what a dinosaur would do Ross is confused and Joey explains he's just trying to talk to Ross in a way he thinks Ross would understand now let's talk about t...

Course: Phrasal verbs from TVSection: How to use “give up”Subtitles: en

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Ross you can't

0:32

just give up is that what a dinosaur

0:35

would do Ross is confused and Joey

0:38

explains he's just trying to talk to

0:40

Ross in a way he thinks Ross would

0:43

understand now let's talk about the

0:45

meaning of this phrasal verb the phrasal

0:48

verb give something up means to stop

0:51

trying to do something because it is too

0:53

hard or not possible so in this

0:56

situation Joey is telling Ross not to

0:59

stop trying to be with Rachel even

1:01

though it might be

1:03

tough

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