Top 10 Phrasal Verbs for Eating and Drinking in English

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hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is Alisha and today we’re gonna

talk about 10 phrasal verbs for eating

and drinking so let’s get started drink

up the first phrasal verb is drink up

drink up drink up is a happy is a

cheerful phrase we use that means let’s

start drinking or let’s enjoy drinking

or please drink so you can use it when

everybody gets their drinks you can say

alright our beers are here let’s drink

up it means it has the nuance of drink a

lot like you can also use it like as a

challenge to someone like someone who

loses a bet or loses like an argument

you can say drink up as kind of a

challenge it’s sort of like a friendly

command for drink so in sentence our

beers are here everybody drink up take

down the next phrasal verb is take down

take down as in take down and order take

down is a phrasal verb that these staff

like waiter or waitress will use at

their restaurant they may come to your

table and say can I take down your order

they may also say can I take your order

of course but to take down is like to

take your order and write it down on a

notepad for example in a notebook so

take down your order

you might hear this so in a sentence

when you’re ready I can take down your

order ring up the next word is ring up

ring up we use ring up to mean total to

total something to total a bill to total

the amount of something at a restaurant

or shopping - for example so again this

is a word that waitstaff the staff the

restaurant may use so when you finish

your meal they will ring up your bill

they will ring up your total and you

will pay that amount at the end of your

immune so in a sentence I’ll ring up

your bill at the cash register set down

the next phrasal verb is set down set

down so we use set down for items which

we are carrying and then we set or we

place

a table so usually there’s like a

downward motion if you’re carrying

something like you can use it for a

backpack if you want to like to set down

to to drop something to leave something

but to put it in like on a table to put

it in a place specifically there so we

can use set down at a restaurant like

please set the plate down on the table

or can you set down my drink over there

or I’ll set down your order over here so

set down means to place something us

something you were carrying to place it

on a table or to place it on a desk so

set it down in a sentence please set

down the plates carefully cut up the

next phrasal verb is cut up cut up we

use cut up to mean cut but cut up

usually means to cut all of something so

if you receive like mono chicken or beef

or pork or some large item you need to

cut we say cut up to mean cut the entire

piece to cut everything you receive so

in a sentence make sure to cut up steak

into small pieces for example it’s

easier for children to eat or I take a

long time to cut up my meat for example

so cut up means cut everything cut into

the next phrasal verb is cut into so to

cut into means just to make one slice

into something usually we use cut into

four like the first slice like we use it

maybe to check that a something is

properly cooked sometimes so like to cut

into a chicken or to cut into turkey we

usually use this for the first slice so

the first experience like when I cut

into the chicken all the juices came out

it looked delicious I’m excited to cut

into my Thanksgiving turkey this year or

I’m really looking forward to cutting

into that steak later it looked great so

cut into is kind of that first cut that

initial cut where you can see maybe what

the what the meat looks like or you get

you get a sense of how the rest of your

meal is going to taste so

into the first slice I want to cut into

my dinner later

stop up the next phrasal verb is stop up

stop up so to stop means to soak with

liquid to soak with liquid to stop up

therefore it’s like to to soak to soak

liquid from like a bowl or from a cup or

something but we use this with bread

usually so if you’re eating soup for

example and there is leftover soup in

your bowl you can take bread and soft up

soak up the liquid from your soup with

bread so to stop up liquid so to soak

and pick up something is the image here

so to stop up bread so for example I

like to stop up my soup with bread or I

like to stop up extra sauce with a

biscuit for example so usually there’s

some bread and some sauce or liquid we

use with this phrase cool down the next

phrasal verb is cooled down cooled down

means to let something become lower

temperature naturally so to let

something cool down really means to

allow something to gradually go to a

lower temperature if you make a pie for

example it’s very hot when it comes out

of the oven so oftentimes the recipe

will say allow to cool down and serve

for example so meaning after the pie is

taken from the oven you should let the

temperature cool you should let the

temperature come down before eating so

to cool down is like reducing the

temperature but just naturally over time

so in a sentence make sure to let your

mashed potatoes cool down before you try

to eat them heat up so the next phrasal

verb is heat up heat up we use heat up

usually to talk about microwave use or

oven use so it’s taking a cold food or

maybe your frozen food usually just a

cold food kept in the refrigerator put

it in the microwave and turn it on to

heat the food to make it warm again

so to heat up is like to move the heat

level

up to increase the temperature of the

food we use the phrasal verb heat up to

do this so for example I like to heat up

my pizza before I eat it my leftover

pizza or you should heat up yesterday’s

soup it would be really good to have

that tonight or maybe we should heat up

something quick for dinner tonight so

heat up means to increase the

temperature of a cold thing

chow down so the next phrasal verb is

sort of a slang expression it’s Chow

down chow down means like to eat really

excitedly it’s it’s not a phrasal verb I

personally use very much but you can use

it to express your enthusiasm for

something so it’s typically used for

like sort of junk food type things or

like really really um everyday foods

like in in the USA it’s like sandwiches

or hotdogs or like something you might

get it like a sporting event will say

like I want to chow down on a sandwich

later or I want to chow down on some

pizza after this so to chow down is like

enthusiastically eats like you’re not

thinking about being polite you’re not

worried about looking nice while you eat

you’re just enjoying eating very

enthusiastically so like oh let’s chow

down on some pizza later for example so

or for example like we’re gonna chow

down on some barbecue this weekend it’ll

be great so those are ten phrasal verbs

for eating and drinking I hope that

those are useful for you as you visit

restaurants and of course even drink if

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you again soon bye or for example we’re

gonna chow down on some BB Q to see this

weekend I mix it up okay one more time

food usually just a cold food kept in

the refrigerator placing it in the

microphone microphone got microwave

microphone this way let’s try that again

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