Today we listened to two texts.
In the first text we met the phrasal verb "to throw up", not to be confused with "throw out" or "throw away", it means to vomit. There are lots of euphamisms for this rather unpleasant bodily function, here are just a few:-
To be sick
To retch
To heave
To toss your cookies
To hurl
To puke
To chuck
To upchuck
To chuck up
To barf
To spew
To blow chunks
To chunder
To deliver street pizza
To sing a rainbow
To call Huey on the big white telephone.
Medically speaking the act of vomiting is also called emesis. The word is Greek for "to vomit."
To throw away and to throw out both mean to discard or to get rid of something that you do not want any more, and that brings us nicely to the second text, which contained the phrasal noun "trash can". This is an American term, and as is often the case in English, there are lots of words for the same thing.
Rubbish in general can be called - Garbage - Refuse - Trash - Waste - Litter - Debris - Rubble
You can put rubbish in the:-
Rubbish bin
Bin
Waste bin
Waste paper basket
Refuse bin
Litter bin
Wheelie bin
Trash can
Garbage can
If you've got a lot of rubbish you might need to hire a skip.
When you need to get rid of your rubbish you need to use waste disposal.
In the UK and America rubbish is collected using a:-
Rubbish cart
Garbage lorry
Once your rubbish has left you it's taken to a:-
Dump
Landfill
If you're green you might want to recycle your rubbish.
If you're naughty you might just drop your rubbish or dump it. This is called:-
Littering
Fly-tipping
Illegal dumping