February 23, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
When I met you, I didn’t know what to do. I was tired, I was hungry, I fight. Now I’m away, I write home everyday and I see you on the TV at night. (Chorus) You can see that life’s for us to talk about. You can leave whenever you want out. Whoa. You don’t [...]
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February 22, 2010 | Posted by profanglais
The expression ‘I want out’ means ‘I want to stop doing this’ ‘I want to get out of this situation’ or ‘I want to abandon (give up) it’ It is common in American English, and not much used in the UK. It is not a ‘phrasal verb’. The word ‘out’ has become in this expression [...]
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Tags: american english, relator, scarlet johansson, want out |
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