ketchup packet

New2grammarWhat do you do with a ketchup packet? rip off or tear up?
Thanks.

Tear it open.
Rip it open is a bit more violent and may result in the ketchup going everywhere.

Rip/Tear something up = you tear/rip it into pieces.

Thanks, Optilang. How about rip off? What does it mean?

Rip off = you detach something, for example, the pull-ring on a can of drink. Again 'rip' implies quite a violent movement/action.

To rip off = to cheat someone - He sold me the ticket for the Police concert for 500zloty saying that it was a seat 30 metres from the stage. When I got to the stadium, I had to sit at the back! He ripped me off.

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If I'm using a scissors, can I say, I'm cutting open a ketchup packet. Is open needed? I believe the same rule applies, that's cutting up means I'm cutting it into pieces. If so, I believe I can say "I'm cutting my old T-shirts to make oven mitts.
Thanks.

New2grammarIf I'm using a scissors, can I say, I'm cutting open a ketchup packet. Is open needed? I believe the same rule applies, that's/that is, cutting up means I'm cutting it into pieces. If so, I believe I can say "I'm cutting my old T-shirts to make oven mitts.
Thanks.

to cut = to make a cut in something, we do not k

Thanks, Optilang. I get it now. Now, it's just a matter of gettting used to them.

You can also be cut up about something - to be very upset

I was really cut up when England did not qualify for Euro 2008.

Her boyfriend ended the relationship and she was really cut up (about it).

optilang It is possible to make a cut in a ketchup sachet (the usual term)

That may be the usual term for you, Opti, but definitely notfor me.

Heh - I didn't even notice the sachet/packet exchange. For us, a sachet is a little scented bundle you put in with your clothing to make them smell nice.

Off topic: What do you call the moisture obsorbing paper 'packets' that usually come with dry food?