dress up – to dress up is to put on costumes or clothes to make yourself look like someone or something else.
Examples:
1. The children dressed up in their Halloween costumes.
2. I dressed up as a witch for the Halloween party.
♦ believe in – when you believe in something or somebody, you are sure that something or somebody exists.
Examples:
1. Do you believe in ghosts?
2. My children still believe in witches and fairies.
♦ freak out – to freak out is to experience strong emotions and become excited or disturbed, or very angry or very
upset.
Examples:
1. He freaked out when he saw the scary halloween costume.
2. They freaked out when we leapt out wearing witch masks and screaming loudly.
♦ weird out – to weird someone out is to make them feel very uncomfortable or uneasy.
Examples:
1. Take that mask off – it’s really weirding me out.
2. I don’t like Halloween. The costumes and decorations weird me out.
♦ hand out – to hand out something (or hand something out) is to give something to each person in a group of
people.
Example:
On Halloween, people hand out sweets to children who knock on their doors
♦ huddle up – to huddle up is to move closer to other people, or to keep your arms and legs very close to your body,
usually because you are cold or frightened
Example:
We were terrified in the haunted house so we held hands and huddled up together.
♦ Look out! – Look out! is an exclamation you shout out to warn someone about potential danger.
Example:
Look out! There’s a ghost behind you!
♦ turn into – when something turns into something else it becomes that thing.
Example:
She drank the magic potion and turned into a black cat.
♦ wind up – to wind up somebody, or wind somebody up, is to tell them something that isn’t true in order to make a
joke.
Example:
We wound up his younger brother by telling him that ghosts and witches are real.
♦ scare away / off – to scare away someobody or something, is to make a person or animal so scared that they go
away.
Example:
We scared the neighbours’ children away by dressing up as skeletons and shouting loudly!
♦ ward off – if you ward off something unpleasant, you stop it from harming you or coming near to you.
Example:
Garlic and crosses ward off vampires.