meantolearn  +  703483 Mon, 27 Apr 09 08:12 AM "We're cutting up and having fun." we're cutting up = we're having a good time --- the explanations by a hostess of a learning English program. But, I've looked up all the dictionaries, the verbal phrase "to be cut up" has a very opposite meaning. It means very upset.  e.g. He was all cut up over his mother's death. How come the same verbal phrase has quite different definitions? Thanks meantolearn Joined on Thu, Feb 24 2005 Regular Member 808 I think; therefore I am. Learning English, Students, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages

	Mister Micawber  +  703679 Mon, 27 Apr 09 10:52 AM . It's not the same phrasal verb.  I would call 'be cut up' a combination of verb + adjective.  However, many phrasal verbs have multiple meanings:  to break down, to pick up, to make up, etc, etc. . Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,833 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.' Verbs, Phrasal Verbs, Adjectives