Top-10 Resources for Business Idioms & Phrasal Verbs (ESL)

Blair English 50 Business English Phrasal Verbs

Description:

Blair English 50 Business English Phrasal Verbs lists fifty phrasal verbs used in business and work situations, published by Blair English, a site of free online business English exercises. Each phrasal verb in the list links to a short video on the publisher's own YouTube channel, where its meaning and use are explained. A few verbs appear twice, once for each distinct meaning they carry.

100% Free (unlimited): Reading the list of fifty and watching every linked video costs nothing and needs no account. The videos sit on the publisher's own YouTube channel, and the site's other business English exercises are open in the same way.

Access: 100% Free Level: Intermediate (B1-B2) Format: Video / Lesson/Tutorial / Reference Written for: Business English (ESL) English Variant: UK

How It Helps Your Business English

What this resource offers:

Fifty phrasal verbs used at work are set out as a single list, from put off and turn up through sort out, stand out and rule out. Each one is a link to a short video lesson on the publisher's YouTube channel explaining its meaning and use. Verbs listed twice carry two different meanings, and both videos are given.

How to use this resource:

Read down the list and mark the verbs you cannot define with confidence. Open the video for each of those, then write one sentence of your own using the verb, which is what the page asks you to do and what fixes the meaning. Where a verb appears twice, watch both videos before deciding which sense you heard at work. Come back later and test yourself against the list.

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Last verified — Oct. 14, 2026