4 Phrasal Verbs for Making Plans

This can mean “delay” or “postpone”, so if you have a plan to do something on a specific day at a specific time and in the end you decide that you want to do it at a later time because it is not possible now, then you put off your plans.
 
Examples:

• I’m sorry, I can’t attend the meeting because an important client is visiting tomorrow, Can we put it off until Friday?
• I decided to start making YouTube videos two years ago but I put it off until few months ago.

2. Put Back
 
This also means that you make your appointment later. Imagine we have arranged to have a coffee on Wednesday, I might say: I’m really sorry but I've got so much work to do that I’m going to have to put it back until Sunday.
 
If you were writing this appointment in your diary and you wanted to put it back, you would need to go closer to the back of your diary to register the date of the new appointment. 
 
Examples:

• Can we put it back until next week?
• Can we put it back a week? 

3. Bring forward
 
This often causes confusion with speakers of English as a Second Language, because some people think the word "forward" means into the future, but no, we are using the work “bring” that means towards me, bring forward means that you make your appointment earlier. If we had an appointment on Wednesday I could tell you...

• I’m really, really sorry I can’t meet on Wednesday, can we bring it forward to Tuesday?
• Could we bring it forward a day? 

4. Call Off

This is the worst because it means you canceled your plans or your appointment.

Here's a true story: everyone knows that in England the three most popular sports are football, rugby, and cricket. I love football, I don’t really like rugby at all and I don’t really follow cricket, but I went once to watch a cricket match, the first cricket match in my life! I was really excited and I went with all my friends. The game started at 8:00pm and about 7:58pm the biggest storm happened, I’ve never seen it rain so hard in my life. Within 5 minutes there was a lot of water on the field so they called the game off. Everybody had to go home, as it was canceled. So I have still never seen a cricket game in my life!

Other examples:

• We had to call off the meeting, because the problem was already solved
• We called the meeting off

You can use call off both as a separable phrasal verb and a non-separable phrasal verb:

• I called off a party once, because nobody could attended.
• Nobody could attend so I called the party off.