ANGOLKA

Phrasal verb: hunt (something / someone) down

Definition: to successfully find something or someone after searching. Usually used when the thing or person is difficult to find.

E.g.1: The criminal ran away and hid, but the police managed to hunt him down.

E.g.2: She had seen the shoes she wanted to buy, but couldn’t remember which shop she had seen them in, so she spent the afternoon hunting them down.

This phrasal verb can be separated. (E.g. 1 and 2)

Test

Five major studios _______ to allow movie fans to legally download films over the internet.

1. teams, 2. team up, 3. team round, 4. teamed.

Joke

A photographer for a national magazine was assigned to take pictures of a great forest fire. He was advised that a small plane would be waiting to fly him over the fire.

The photographer arrived at the airstrip just an hour before sundown. Sure enough, a small Cessna airplane was waiting. He jumped in with his equipment and shouted, „Let’s go!“ The tense man sitting in the pilot’s seat swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air, though flying erratically.

„Fly over the north side of the fire,” said the photographer, „and make several low-level passes.” „Why?” asked the nervous pilot. „Because I’m going to take pictures!” yelled the photographer. „I’m a photographer, and photographers take pictures.”

The pilot replied, „You mean you’re not the flight instructor?”

Correct answer to the test question: 2. team up (Králik Róbert)