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hello everyone welcome back in this

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video we're going to learn a common

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English phrasal verb used by Ross in

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season 9 episode 6 of friends in this

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episode Monica tells Chandler that a guy

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from work is the funniest and it makes

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Chandler feel jealous Monica tries to

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make him feel better saying he's a

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different kind of funny and has nothing

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to worry about with this guy Jeffrey

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then she mentions a joke Chandler told

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her about Jerry Lewis and a girl with a

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lazy eye however Ross jumps in and

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reveals he made up that joke then Joey

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says to Ross not knowing when to shut up

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and Ross answers yep that's my

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thing now let's talk about the meaning

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of this phrasal verb the phrasal verb

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makes something up means to invent or

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create something such as a story excuse

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or explanation sometimes with the

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intention to deceive or mislead

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others so in this situation Ross tells

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Monica that he invented the joke not

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Chandler but he forgets to keep it a

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secret and that makes things a bit

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awkward everyone was trying to show that

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Chandler is funny but Ross's Revelation

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kind of messes it

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up hey I made up that joke and told it

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to

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you let's see more examples

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he made up an excuse for being late to

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the

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meeting I'm not making it up I really

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did see a ghost in that old

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house I was trying to make up a story to

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entertain the

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children she made a song up on the spot

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and started singing it

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