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1Put Em In Their Place — Infobox Single | Name = Put Em In Their Place Artist = Mobb Deep from Album = Blood Money Released = Start date|2006|3|14 Format = CD single Genre = East Coast hip hop Length = 4:01 Label = G Unit, Interscope Writer = Havoc, Prodigy Producer =… …
2put (someone) in (their) place — to let someone know that they are not as important as they think they are. She didn t like my suggestions at all. I was put firmly in my place, like a naughty schoolgirl …
3put somebody in their place — put sb in their ˈplace idiom to make sb feel stupid or embarrassed for showing too much confidence • At first she tried to take charge of the meeting but I soon put her in her place. Main entry: ↑placeidiom …
4put someone in their place — deflate or humiliate someone regarded as being presumptuous. → place …
5put someone in their place — Marsha s father in law finally spoke up and put that hateful woman in her place Syn: humiliate, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squash, humble; informal cut down to size, settle someone s hash, make someone eat crow …
6put someone in their place — HUMILIATE, take down a peg or two, deflate, crush, squash, humble; informal cut down to size, settle someone s hash; N. Amer. informal make someone eat crow. → place …
7place — [[t]ple͟ɪs[/t]] ♦ places, placing, placed 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A place is any point, building, area, town, or country. ...Temple Mount, the place where the Temple actually stood. ...a list of museums and places of interest... We re going to… …
8place — place1 W1S1 [pleıs] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(area/space/building etc)¦ 2¦(home )¦ 3 take place 4¦(space to sit or put something)¦ 5¦(point in book/speech)¦ 6¦(opportunity to do something)¦ 7¦(role/position)¦ 8 in place 9 in place o …
9place — 1 (C) PLACE, POSITION, OR AREA 1 POINT/POSITION a) any area, point, or position in space: This is the place where the accident happened. | Make sure you keep it in a safe place. | We kept moving from place to place. | The whole place was covered… …
10place — placeable, adj. placeless, adj. placelessly, adv. /plays/, n., v., placed, placing. n. 1. a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent. 2. space in general: time and place. 3. the specific portion of space normally… …
