act out

act out

act out : misbehave, especially when unhappy or stressed.

many children who act out while awaiting placement in a health care facility end up in juvenile detention

You can use act out when you want to express some mis-behaviors. The unpleasant acts out of stress and being unhappy are all "act out". Take a look at pics below, it's the best to way to get it !

Those are all "acting out". In most cases, the expression goes to misbehaving child, but there're always exceptions, watch this video below and it's being certainly used for the adult, who seems... underdeveloped a little.

"What's up?"

"Hell Doc, now you put it right that, I'm afraid I ain't got much hope."

"Have you been acting out again Michael?"

"Things are bad doc, really bad"

"Tell me all about it, sharing is winning"

However, above is not only the meaning act out has, it also have several other meanings. Phrasal verb has many variations, thus gets to have a different meaning in different contexts. Understanding and feeling the essential meaning of the verb and preposition is the key to understand what English actually is.

Act means something you do and out means outside, and moving toward outside from inside. Thus the most essential, original meaning would be some actions that's going to get out of somewhere inside. With this primitive meaning, you can use this expression even if you haven't memorized it yet.

The actors do their acting job and we can call it act out as well because the acting is the action of emitting the inner emotional things outwards. Sharing your secret to others with full honest can be called act out too because the action is also something you show your inside feelings or thoughts to the outside of world.

So these meanings are all coming from "act out"

1. to show the events that happened in a situation by doing them again or by doing the same things as the people involved
2. to express your thoughts or feelings through your words or behaviour
3. to do something that you have planned or had previously only thought of doing

That's why you'll get these kind of images when you googel "act out"

When you study phrasal verb

I didn't spend much time trying to memorize phrasal verbs from the intermediate learning phase. I'd rather spend time feeling the most essential meanings of a verb and a preposition that comes with the verb like a friend. Personally, it worked out great for me. If you can feel the nuance of the expression, verb, preposition itself and etc, you can node along when you see the actual meanings and you are 100% with English itself. This makes me pick up English pretty quickly and I felt like I didn't study English at all, instead, I just felt it, and absorbed it, and English became my second nature kinda thing.

Of course English sense alone cannot just make you fluent in writing or speaking English, but let me assure you, you're going to memorize less. And you can even use English expressions that you haven't even learnt before with some combination of verbs and prepositions.

For example, I once wanted to express " I wrote an article in my blog " but I wanted to use something else instead of write and I thought out "put it up on my blog" and actually used it, and it turned out that the expression was 100% correct.

put is some actions of putting down, that's the most original, alpha meaning of the verb,

up could mean the upper position, and moving toward somewhat higher, and complete action,

on means some state of sticking to something and doing something over and over and over again.

With these sort of feelings I could be able to come up with that kind of expression. Even if you were wrong, you should try to use such expressions. I'm pretty sure that you're not going to be completely wrong about it, partially at best.

One more example would be eat up. eat means the action of putting some food typically into your mouth and up as I said above, is something you finished, something you completed. ( Completion means the end of a task or job or an action ) So imagine what meaning will be made out of eat + up? 

Yeah what else? it's finishing the plate. Just always try to feel the language, then you may get out of the torment of memorizing stuff.

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