Business -phrasal verbs

Slave away means...

• to work with little or no rest

• work all night

• to have so much work that you have problems dealing with it all

• to cause doubts about something

Hand over refers to...

• tell someone about something

• start working

• give someone else the responsibility or control

• give enough information

When you ask someone to do something they were supposed to do, you use...

• Step down

• Follow up

• Fill in

• Chase up

This means to be sucessful in a job

• Head up

• Deal in

• Get ahead

• Knuckle down

"I'm pretty busy, but I can fit you in for Monday at 8am"

Fit you in means...

• give someone responsibility

• make room/space

• help someone

• resolve problems

"I need to catch up with the reports"

Catch up with means...

• finish something

• to do sth you didn't have the time to do earlier

• work hard with little or no rest

• find more about sth

"he stepped down as party leader a week ago"

Step down means...

• work hard

• suceed at a job position

• take a position at work

• resign from an important position or office

"This sure was a peculiar week, I've been tied up the whole week"

Be tied up means...

• so busy one is unable to speak to anyone or go anywhere

• try to find out more about something

• lose your job

• resign to a job position

This refers to...

• Knuckle down

• Lay off

• Sort out

• Chase up

This refers to...

• Be snowed under with

• Pull together

• Knock off

• Take on