English Phrasal Verbs - Break Off, Break Out

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  Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.

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  I hope you're doing great, I hope your English learning is going well,

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  and that you're ready to learn some new phrasal verbs today.

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  We're going to look at two phrasal verbs in this episode.

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  The first one is break off, and the second one is break out.

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  And we're going to look at two different meanings of break out.

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  First, let me define these phrasal verbs and give you an example of each one.

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  Break off means to end or discontinue some type of relationship.

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  You put an end to that relationship.

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  So, for example, I could say,

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  the government broke off diplomatic relations with that nation.

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  In this sense,

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  I'm saying that the government had diplomatic relations with another government from another nation,

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  but now the government is going to end that relationship.

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  They're no longer going to have diplomacy.

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  They're no longer going to have diplomatic ties to that country.

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  Probably because they don't approve of what that other country is doing right now,

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  perhaps.

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  So they broke off diplomatic relations with that nation.

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  They are no longer in that diplomatic relationship.

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