Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 158. The verb phrase today is bust up. Okay. We have a three meanings that we're going to cover today for bust up. All right. Let's look at the note here. Now bust ... bust by itself. Bust is commonly used in speech but many claim it is a non-standard form of burst. So what does that mean ? Remember when we say ... when we see non-standard a dictionary, it means it's not really proper or correct. But this one's also important because this one you hear in everyday speech or in movies a lot. You'll hear that somebody got busted up. So it could be like burst or like break. So if something gets busted up, it got broken up or burst up or something like that. But that's the use that we have of it. So let's look at the first example here. If a couple busts up, their relationship or marriage ends. Or we have a second one here. A business.. if a business partnership could also bust up. So if that bust up, that also comes to an end. All right. So let's look at the one the note here where we have a few examples of this. Example number one. Jack's affair with another woman busted up his marriage. Yeah. It's very common. You may hear it that way. Number two. There was too much infighting between the members of that rock group and it caused them to bust up. Yeah. You often hear this. Maybe I don't know. Maybe their personalities don't match anymore. Sometimes some members get jealous of the other members or who knows what happened ? But there was infighting and they ended up busting up. They ended up breaking up. They ended up separating. Okay. Let's look at the second meaning we have here. If something busts up, it comes apart and breaks into pieces. Yeah. So let's look at a first example here. She dropped a box of dishes that she packed for a move and most of them got busted up. Yeah. That would be terrible. It falls you probably would hear a lot of it crack. If you're lucky maybe a few of them didn't get busted up in the it falling or dropping. But probably most of them would. Okay. So they broke into a number of pieces. All right. The second example we have for this one. The earthquake shook and knocked down that wall clock. It got all busted up. So when it fell maybe you can't fix it anymore. It broke it into many pieces. Okay. And the third one. The last one here. If someone gets busted up. So if a person gets busted up, he or she gets beaten up. Or this is one way you might hear it if you speak bad about my mother, I'm going to bust you up. You know, somebody might say it that way. I don't know maybe somebody insulted their mother or insulted of that family and they're this ... they're warning them. If you, you keep talking bad I'm going fight you. Something like that. Okay. And the second one here. Did you see what happened to Tom ? He got busted up in a bar fight. Maybe he said the wrong thing to a person in the bar they are drunk you know, and maybe he ended up in the hospital. He got beaten up So he got busted up. Okay. Good. I hope you got it. I hope it is clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
B1 US busted bust verb phrase burst hear ended English Tutor Nick P Verb Phrase (158) Bust Up 13 0 anitawu12 posted on 2019/09/01 More Share Save Report Video vocabulary