English Phrasal Verbs - Border On, Boss Around

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  Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.

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  I hope you're doing excellent and that you're ready to learn a couple new phrasal verbs today.

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  We're going to look at two.

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  The first one is border on and the other one is boss around.

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  So first, let's define these two phrasal verbs and see an example of each one.

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  What does border on mean?

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  This means to be very close to being something.

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  If we say that something borders on something else,

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  we're saying this thing is very close to being that other thing.

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  For example, I could say the way they treat their servant borders on abuse.

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  This means that The way that they treat their servant resembles abuse.

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  It's very close to abuse.

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  It might not be exactly at that level, but it's pretty close to abuse.

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  It borders on abuse, okay?

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  All right, the other phrasal verb is boss around.

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  So what does this mean?

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  When someone bosses someone around,

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  It means that they tell that person what to do and they give them orders in an annoying way.

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  They're like happy that they have this authority over this other person and they order them around and tell them what to do and all of that.

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  For example, I could say, he didn't like that job.

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