Part 4: Eating: Phrasal verbs with Georgie ?

Let's start with snacks.

If you snack on something, you eat small amounts of something between meals.

You wouldn't usually snack on a burger but you could snack on some biscuits or some fruit.

They're snacking on some crisps on the plane.

Munching on something is similar to snacking on something.

It's eating snacks in a casual way but it has an added element of being noisy maybe because you're eating something crunchy, like an apple or some crisps.

She is munching on an apple.

Dig in and tuck in are similar and can be used interchangeably.

They mean to start eating excitedly or enthusiastically.

They're often used to give people permission to start eating.

Everyone's got their plates?

Okay, dig in.

The food smelled delicious, they couldn't wait to tuck in.

The boy is already tucking in.

Eat up or eat something up is a phrasal verb that's mostly used as an imperative to tell someone what to do.

It means to finish everything on your plate.

Eat up, you've got a big day tomorrow, you'll need the energy.

You'd better eat up all your vegetables before you leave the table.

Now, pig out might be obvious if you think about it, we think about pigs eating a lot of food.

And that's exactly what it means, it suggests you're eating more than you need, but that's kind of the point.

After the long hike, she pigged out on sugary doughnuts.

Finally, eat out means eat out.

You eat outside of your home, like in a restaurant or a cafe.

They had no food in the fridge, so they decided to eat out.

Yeah, I'm starving, I really fancy pigging out on some chucky.

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