- Rain down on: Fall in large numbers: Bombs RAINED DOWN ON the city all night.
- Rake in: Earn, make money easily: She’s RAKING IN thousands a day.
- Ramp up: Increase amount, price, speed or power of something: The company has RAMPED its prices UP because of higher oil prices.
- Rat on: Inform authorities about someone’s wrongdoings: She RATTED ON her neighbours to the police because they were smuggling alcohol from France.
- Reach out for: Try to achieve something difficult: They are REACHING OUT FOR major economic reforms.
- Reason out: Come to a conclusion or solution after some thought: He REASONED OUT the answer to the math problem.
- Ride out: Survive a difficult time: They managed to RIDE OUT the recession.
- Roll back: Retreat: The army ROLLED BACK when they came under attack.
- Root for: Support: Everyone was ROOTING FOR Arsenal to win the Champions League.
- Rule out: Exclude a possibility: The police have RULED OUT suicide and are treating it as a case of murder.
- Run after: Chase, pursue: The police RAN AFTER the guy who’d stolen it, but he was too fast for them.
- Rush in: Enter or go indoors in a hurry: We RUSHED IN when it started raining.
