bucket down; budge up; buff up; buff up on; bug off; bug out; build up; bulk out

bucket down
下 (傾盆) 大雨
Take an umbrella; it's bucketing down.

budge up
挪出空間;騰出地方
We had to budge up to let the fourth person in the back of the car.

buff * up +
擦亮;擦淨
The silver candlestick looked lovely after I buffed it up.

buff * up +
改善
After the scandal, the politician tried to buff up his public image.

buff up on +
快速增進知識
I buffed up on my grammar before the test.

bug off
走開,滾開
I told her to bug off because she was annoying me.

bug out
嚇得嘴巴張得大大的
He bugged out when she turned up.

bug out
倉促離去;逃竄
They bugged out when the police arrived.

build * up +
發展;擴展
She built the business up from nothing into a market leader in less than a decade.

build * up +
增加
Tension has been building up ever since the government passed the unpopular law.

bulk * out
使變大、變厚;使膨脹;使變得更厚實、更豐滿
I bulked the essay out with a few quotes to reach the number of word required.

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