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Butter someone up

with compliments before asking for an extension on her assignment the politician tried to butter up the voters by making promises he knew he couldn't keep is there anything I co...

Course: Phrasal verbs from TVSection: Six everyday phrasal verbsSubtitles: en

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professor

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with compliments before asking for an

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extension on her

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assignment the politician tried to

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butter up the voters by making promises

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he knew he couldn't

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keep is there anything I could do to you

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know butter him up anything he really

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likes he does have a pretty serious

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latex fetish we'll see how dinner

1:37

goes Hey Joe how's the second draft of

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the letter coming great I'm finished in

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fact I just dropped it off the agency

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you dropped it off yeah can we read it

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can you print out another copy no can't

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do

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Migo Hey Joe how's the second draft of

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the letter coming great I'm finished in

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fact I just dropped it off the agency

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you dropped it off yeah can we read it

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can you print out another copy no can't

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do

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Amigo the phrasal verb to drop someone

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or something off means to take someone

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or something to a particular place

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usually by car and leave them

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there it's a separable phrasal

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verb

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examples I will drop you off at the

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airport

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