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  • 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.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 158. The verb phrase today is

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