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Call up

call somebody up (phrasal verb)


(especially North American English) to make a phone call to somebody

1) Warm night, can’t sleep

too hurt, too weak, gotta call her up

Love’s train - Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars and Anderson Paak)

2) He decided to call me up in the middle of the night 


carry on

to continue moving

to argue or complain noisily (informal)

(with something / carry something on) to continue doing something 

(with somebody) to have a sexual relationship with somebody when you should not (old-fashioned)

  1. But I don't want to carry on like everything is fine, "Love in the dark" Adele
  2. He was shouting and carrying on.
  3. Carry on with your work while I'm away.
  4. His wife found out he'd been carrying on with another woman.


cut off

to cut somebody off (phrasal verb) 

to stop communication

  1. But you didn't have to cut me off,
    make out like it never happened and that we were nothing 
    - Somebody that I Used to Know, Gotye
  2. The village was in the middle of nowhere. They were cut off from the rest of the world.