English Phrasal Verbs - Cash In On, Catch On

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  Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.

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  I hope you're ready to practice your English and learn a couple new phrasal verbs in today's episode.

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  We're going to look at two phrasal verbs today and one of them has a couple different meanings.

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  So we're going to look at two meanings for that phrasal verb.

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  The first phrasal verb is cash in on.

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  So when you cash in on something,

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  we're saying that you take advantage of a situation in order to make money.

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  For example, I could say he cashed in on their ignorance.

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  Here I'm saying that the person took advantage of their ignorance in order to make money.

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  Maybe He deceived them somehow because they were ignorant of some fact or something,

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  but he took advantage of that situation to benefit himself to make money.

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  So that's cash in on.

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  And then the other phrasal verb is catch on and we'll look at two different usages of this one.

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  The first meaning of catch on is to become popular,

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  not for people really, more for things, ideas, styles, etc.

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  For example, I could say that idea never caught on.

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  What I'm saying here is that idea never became really popular.

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  it never gained momentum, really.

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  And the other usage of catch on that I wanted to go over is to understand or realize something usually after a long time,

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  like before you didn't realize it, you didn't understand for a while, and then you did.

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