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Rack (1)

Rack up
- Acquire a lot of something

Rain (1)

Rain down on
- Fall in large numbers

Rake (2)

Rake it in
- Make a lot of money
Rake up
- Bring something back to people's attention

Ramp (1)

Ramp up
- Increase price, speed or power of something

Rat (3)

Rat on
- Inform authorities about someone's wrongdoings
- Fail to keep a promise
Rat out
- Inform the authorities about someone
Rat through
- Look for something hurriedly

Ratchet (1)

Ratchet up
- Increase

Rattle (1)

Rattle off
- Quote figures rapidly

Reach (3)

Reach out
- Stretch your arm to get something
Reach out for
- Try to achieve something difficult
Reach out to
- Ask for help
- Offer help
- Try to communicate and establish good relations with people

Read (3)

Read off
- Read a list aloud for someone to write down
Read out
- Read aloud rather than silently
Read up on
- Research

Reckon (1)

Reckon on
- The minimum expected

Reel (3)

Reel in
- Catch a fish on a line and pull the line to land
- Attract people, especially customers, to get them to do what you want them to
Reel off
- Quote statistics or facts rapidly
- Score a lot of points or win a lot of games one after the other
Reel out
- Unwind

Rein (1)

Rein in
- Control someone or something to stop them causing more trouble

Ride (4)

Ride off
- Go away on a bike, horse, etc
Ride on
- Depend on
Ride out
- Survive a difficult time
Ride up
- Move higher on the body (of clothes)

Ring (3)

Ring back
- Return a phonecall
Ring off
- Finish a phone conversation
Ring up
- Telephone

Rip (1)

Rip off
- Charge excessively or obtain money unfairly

Roll (7)

Roll back
- Retreat
- Reduce or remove
Roll in
- Arrive somewhere, especially if late
- Arrive in large numbers, for military vehicles
Roll on
- When something continues to happen
Roll on!
- Said when you can't wait for something nice in the future
Roll out
- Launch or introduce a new product, initiative, etc.
Roll up
- To appear in large numbers for an event
Roll up!
- An imperative used to attract people to a public event

Romp (2)

Romp in
- Win easily
Romp through
- Do something easily or quickly

Room (1)

Room in
- To keep a mother and baby together after the birth

Root (5)

Root about
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root around
- Look in a place to try to find something
Root for
- Support
Root out
- Look for and find
- Find the source of a problem and remove it
Root up
- Dig a plant out of the ground

Rope (1)

Rope in
- Get somebody to help

Rough (1)

Rough up
- Assault

Round (1)

Round off
- Finish something in a satisfactory manner

Row (1)

Row back
- Retreat from a position

Rub (8)

Rub along
- Have a reasonably good relationship
Rub down
- Dry or clean something with a cloth
- Massage or rub someone to help them relax
Rub in
- Apply a substance like cream or ointment and rub it until it is absorbed
Rub it in
- Emphasise how bad a situation is to make someone feel worse
Rub off on
- Pass a quality or characteristic to people
Rub out
- Delete ink or pencil with an eraser
- Kill
Rub up against
- Touch someone in a sensual or sexual way
Rub up on
- Revise

Rule (1)

Rule out
- Exclude a possibility

Run (19)

Run across
- Meet or find accidentally
Run after
- Chase, pursue
- Try to become romantically involved with someone
Run against
- Oppose, make difficulties
Run along
- Go away, leave (often as an imperative)
Run away
- Escape from people chasing you
- Leave home because of problems with other family members or to elope
Run down
- Hit a pedestrian with a vehicle
- Lose energy or power
- Criticise, disparage
- Find the source or origin of something
Run for
- Campaign for a position
Run in
- Arrest, take to police station for questioning
- Drive a new car carefully in order not to damage the engine
- Pay a casual visit
- Insert
Run into
- Cost
- Meet by accident
Run off
- Make photocopies
Run on
- Be powered by
Run out of
- Have none left
Run over
- Explain quickly
- Hit with a vehicle
- Exceed a time limit
Run through
- Practise a dramatic work like a play quickly
- Stab or wound deeply with a knife, sword, etc.
Run to
- Go to someone for help
- Include in things you like
- Have enough money to buy something, often negative
Run up
- Move quickly to where someone is
- Hoist, raise a flag
- Do or make something very quickly
- Spend a lot of money on credit
Run up against
- Encounter problems, often unexpected
Run up on
- Approach someone without their knowing
Run with
- Keep company, normally bad

Rush (1)

Rush into
- Do something too quickly