Hi everybody, my name is Alicia.

In this lesson, I'm going to talk about some phrasal verbs that use the word push.

So these are expressions that feature the verb push, but have a slightly different meaning from the basic meaning of push.

Let's take a look.

Okay, let's begin with the first expression, which is push off. To push off means to begin moving.

Usually we use this with a boat.

When we say push off, it's like we're pushing away from some kind of like safety or some kind of support.

We typically use this for boats to mean moving

away from like a dock, moving away from land, moving away from the part of the boat that's

connected to some safety on land. So we use this like to refer to moving away from a safe place, but it tends to be used a lot in boats.

An example of this, we pushed off at 8 a.m. So here it's the past tense, we pushed off and the time.

We pushed off at 8 a.m. means probably the boat left the safe place at the dock at 8 a.m.

So to push off means to begin moving away from something, away from something, some kind of support.

Okay, let's move along to the next expression.

The next expression is to push by, to push by something or to push by someone

means to use a pushing motion to move past someone or something. We use this a lot with people.

In a crowded situation where you're near someone else, but you would like to move past that person,

you can use a slight pushing motion, a gentle pushing motion to move past that person.

So you don't want to maybe push them a lot, but you can alert the other person.

You can tell the other person you're

going to pass them with this expression.

For example, I'm going to push by you.

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