English Phrasal Verbs - Call Out, Cancel Out

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  Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.

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

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  In today's episode, we're going to look at two phrasal verbs.

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  The first one is call out and the second one is cancel out.

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

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  Call out.

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  means to draw attention to and criticize someone's unacceptable actions or behavior.

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  For example, I could say people called him out on his hypocrisy.

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  What I'm saying here is that this person was being a hypocrite and so other people called him out,

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  meaning they pointed to his hypocrisy and criticized it and talked about it publicly and showed that he was being a hypocrite.

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  So they drew attention to his hypocrisy and criticized it.

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  So they called him out on his hypocrisy.

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  The other phrasal verb is cancel out and this means to remove the effect of one thing by doing another thing that has the opposite effect.

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  So for example, I could say the additional costs cancel out whatever money you think you might save.

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  So here in this example, I'm saying that because you have to pay some other costs,

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  It cancels out the money that you save on this deal or whatever.

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  So because you have to pay in other areas,

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  this negates or removes the savings that you have in the other area.

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  So the two things cancel each other out.

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  So the costs cancel out.

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