Question

Fill the blank with appropriate word
You should _____ down your expenses

Answer 1

Yoy should cut down your expenses

Answer 2

Answer:

You should cut down your expenses.

Explanation:

A phrasal verb is a phrase that contains a verb and a preposition. Phrasal verbs do not carry their ‘literal meanings’ but imply a meaning ‘far different’ from their own. For example: run out which means something whose stock is over.  

Here down hasn’t been used as a simple preposition but has been used as a phrasal verb instead as cut down means to reduce or lessen something. Here the listener is being told to cut down or reduce his or her expenses.