This is the Rachel’s English 30-Day Challenge! Learn 30 phrasal verbs in 30 days! Jumpstart your vocabulary in 2017. Today is Day 17 and we’re studying phrasal verbs with “snap”.

Snap to it! Let’s learn this phrasal verb.

Snap to it means do it more quickly. It’s ordering someone to do something, not asking nicely. Pick that up. Come on, snap to it!

To snap back means to return to something, the way things were, return to what’s normal. This is the same as bounce back. She snapped back to her routine after having twins. I couldn’t believe it. It can also be used for something that’s attached with elastic or something stretchy. You can pull it, and it will snap back into place. Or, a sudden jerk: my head snapped back in the accident.

To snap something off is to break it, and it makes a nice satisfying snap sound. You can snap a twig off a branch.

If you snap at someone, you say something quickly, meanly. Usually it’s been building up inside of you for a while. Stop that, would you! Fine! But don’t snap at me.

The phrase ‘snap out of it’ means to stop feeling upset or in a bad mood. You’ve been complaining all day. Snap out of it!

Snap up. Well, you can snap up a shirt that has snaps. But it also means to buy something quickly. Let’s go snap up some after Christmas sales. Tickets to the concert were snapped up in the first five minutes.

Snap begins with the SN consonant cluster. Sn, sn. Teeth are together. I point my tongue tip up, ss, and then it just moves up a little bit to make the N. Sn-. Sna-. Then the AA as in BAT vowel. Lots of jaw drop, and the back of the tongue lifts. Aa, sna-, snap. Lips come together for the P and will usually part for small burst of air, the release of the P. Snap, pp. Snap.

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