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Yeah, phrasal verbs (verb-particle combinations) are almost entirely idiomatic. At least as a non-native learner, I've found it best to memorize them as units and not to even think about what the adposition would mean affixed to a noun, and that's how they were taught as well.



That's the only way to memorize them, since they constitute essentially new words, with distinct meanings―same as any idioms.




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