Bring over

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A friend of mine (native English speaker) uttered this sentece 'the price of a kangaroo's meat in England is higher than in Australia owing to the fact they have to bring it over'.
As much as I do understand the whole meaning, I don't seem to have found anything on the Internet about the phrasal verb 'bring over'. The dictionary http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bring?s=t doesn't list it down on its phrasal verb list. If it exists, what's the register of it? Is it used pretty often? If you tried your hand at dispelling my doubts, I would be in enormous debt.

Fivejedjon · Accepted Answer

'Bring over' is not a phrasal verb here. 'Over' is used adverbially; it means 'across' (for example from one country to another).

Tomasz Klepinowski · Answer

Thanks fivejedjon. I forgot to log in while posting this question. Could you possibly then scribble an exemplary sentence with 'bring over' serving as a phrasal verb? And yet again, is 'bring over' a formal, neutral or informal phrasal verb?

Fivejedjon · Answer

As I have already said,I do not consider 'bring over' to be a phrasal verb. I'd say 'over' used in this sense was neutral

Ozzourti · Answer

http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/british/bring-over lists "bring over" as a phrasal verb. Sometimes the distinction between what is a phrasal verb and what is not is somewhat blurry. I usually leave it to the experts.

Fivejedjon · Answer

ozzourtiI usually leave it to the experts.

The experts don't agree on this, unfortunately.

Ozzourti · Answer

fivejedjonThe experts don't agree on this, unfortunately.

But at least they are more qualified to disagree than I am.

CalifJim · Answer

ozzourtiBut at least they are more qualified to disagree than I am.

Hmm. One wonders if that's so true.

CJ

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