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Phrasal Verbs / PHRASA~1

Step on

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1. step on p.v. When you step on something, you place your foot on it.

If the carpenter steps on a nail, she'll have to go to the hospital for a tetanus shot.

Sam stepped on a cockroach.

2. step on p.v. [informal] When you say "Step on it" to someone who is driving a car, you are telling the driver to drive faster.

Hank needed to get to the airport in fifteen minutes, so he told the taxi driver to step on it.

Step on it! We have to be at work in ten minutes.