ask someone out- To invite (someone) to a social engagement.
He asked me out to tonight's ball. 

ask around-  to ask several people for information or advice.
I'm gonna ask around to see if someone knows how to get there.

add up to something- To amount to an expected total. 
You need to add up the milk in that account. 

back something up- To copy (computer data) on to a disk or tape.
He backed it up in the computer, so don't worry if you lost the paper. 

back someone up- To support or assist them.
I can back up her story. 

blow up- To explode. To lose one's temper.
The bombs blew up the minute they hit the ground. 

break down- The act or process of failing to function or continue. 
I broke down as soon as I heard the news. 

break in- To enter premises forcibly or illegally.
He was trying to break in, but the police got there soon enough so they stopped him.

break into- To interrupt. 
She broke into the conversation very abruptly.

break something in- To use or wear (new shoes or boots, etc) so that they lose their stiffness, etc.
I'm gonna break these boots in right now. 

break up- To separate or be separated into pieces.
We broke up last night.

break out- To develop suddenly and forcefully.
Its a show where they all break out into dancing. 

Once there was this girl, she was really nice, but she had a very hard time when it came to keeping secrets,  and everyone knew that, so no one trusted her. One day, this boy, who was her best friend wanted to tell her a secret, but he didn't knew if he could tell her, because it was a secret that involved other people, and if anyone else knew someone could get hurt, but the girl kept insisting him to tell her, she said: Come on, take a chance on me, i wont tell this time. After hours of begging, he finally told her, the secret was that he was having a relationship with a girl named ana, but nobody could now, because he had just broke up with his girlfriend two days ago, so if she found out, she was going to be very hurt. After a while, the girl just couldn't keep the secret anymore, so she told a few people, and in a matter of days, the news was all over school, and the ex-girlfriend heard it, and she was devastated. When the boy went to talk to his best friend he was really mad, and he told her that she was a terrible person, that shemade a mess of thing, and that she broke his ex-girlfriend heart, and that she should pay more attention to what she says. She was hurt with all that he was saying, but she knew it was true, and she could see him getting angrier, so she left. For a few days no one saw her, she went missing, no one could find her, and then, after a couple of days she called one of her friends, and told her that she was saving herself the trouble of apologizing, so she wasn't going to be at school for sometime, until everyone forgot what she did.

Fernanda Herrera