短语词组积累

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better off / beyond measure / on one’s mind / pitch in / fall back on sth/sb

1. better off

●be richer, happier, more fortunate, etc.

Examples:

●‘You’d be better off with a smaller house, now that your children have left home.

●Under the new tax regulations I will be ￡17 a month better off.

●You’d be better off resting at home with that cold. (better off doing: more sensible to do)

●Cf. well off: wealthy; in a favourable situation or circumstances

●Her family are quite well off.

●Jack has just bought another new car; he must be very well off.

2. beyond measure

●to a very great extent

Examples:

●It irritates him beyond measure.

●Her joy was beyond measure.

●She fascinates me beyond measure.

3. on one’s mind

●preoccupying someone, especially in a disquieting way

Examples:

●New parents have many worries on their minds.

●I’ve got a lot on my mind at the moment.

●Cf. in one’s mind

●I wonder what is going on in his young mind.

4. pitch in

●vigorously join in to help with a task or activity

Examples:

●If everyone pitches in, we'll soon have the job finished.

●Lots of people pitched in with advice.

●Ruth pitches in with the adult workers at the stables before she goes off to school.

5. fall back on

●use or do sth else after things have failed

Examples:

●You can always fall back on him when you are in difficulties.

●Doctors sometimes fall back on old cures.