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PHRASAL VERBS 398

 think through (tr)

 consider sth very carefully; [dikkatli bir şekilde düşünmek]

I am grateful for your offer, but I shall need a few days to think it through.

 think up

 produce sth by thought, invent or devise sth; [(bahane vs) üretmek]

Your son is very good at thinking up excuses for being late.

 throw away (tr)

 discard sth. as useless or unwanted; [atmak]

Throw it away. It’s useless.

 fail to make use of sth; [fırsat, avantaj vs’yi kaçırmak, değerlendirememek]

You shouldn’t have thrown that opportunity away.
We threw away our advantage.

 throw back (tr)

 repel, repulse sb/sth; [(düşman vs.) püskürtmek]

We threw back the enemy in a series of fierce engagements.

 reflect (light, heat etc) ; [(ışık, ısı vs) yansıtmak]

These walls throw back the intense midday heat.

remind sb. strikingly of an earlier event, occasion, etc; [(geçmiş bir olay, vs’yi) hatırlatmak]

This photograph threw me back to my childhood.

 throw off (tr)

 produce or compose sth in a casual way; [hemen uyduruvermek, rahatlıkla yazıvermek ]

When I saw him he was throwing off a few songs for the evening’s concert.
I threw off my composition just before the teacher came.

 get rid of sth; [-den kurtulmak]

He seems to have thrown off a great burden.
I threw off flu after all.