2026-02-13
17 分钟Hey English learners, welcome to another phrasal verb episode.
I hope you're doing well today and that you're ready to learn a couple new phrasal verbs in today's episode.
We're going to look at two phrasal verbs.
The first one is chicken out and the second one is chill out.
So first let me just give you the definitions of these phrasal verbs and an example.
of each one.
Chicken out means to decide not to do something you were gonna do because you're afraid.
And be careful because it can be a little bit mean to say to someone that they're chickening out.
This is kind of a mean phrase, but we might say it about ourselves, for example.
or you might be able to say it to a good friend if they have a good sense of humor.
So I could say this, for example.
He told us he was going to ask her out, but he chickened out.
In this sentence, I'm saying that he had planned on asking this girl out,
meaning to ask her on a date, but he chickened out.
He got scared and didn't do it.
So that's chicken out.
The other one is chill out, which means to calm down or relax and stop being anxious or upset.
For example, just chill out.
Everything will be fine.
Here, I'm telling the person to relax, stop worrying, stop being so anxious or whatever,