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  • 61put through — {v. phr.} 1. To carry out; arrange. * /If Jim can put through one more financial transaction like this one, we will be rich./ 2. To connect (said of telephone calls). * /The telephone operator had to put me through to Zambia as there is no direct …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 62put through — {v. phr.} 1. To carry out; arrange. * /If Jim can put through one more financial transaction like this one, we will be rich./ 2. To connect (said of telephone calls). * /The telephone operator had to put me through to Zambia as there is no direct …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 63put\ through — v. phr. 1. To carry out; arrange. If Jim can put through one more financial transaction like this one, we will be rich. 2. To connect (said of telephone calls). The telephone operator had to put me through to Zambia as there is no direct dialing… …

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  • 64put in the way of — or[put in one s way] {v. phr.} To set before (someone); give to (someone); show the way to; help toward. * /After Joe graduated, the coach put him in the way of a good job./ * /The librarian put me in the way of a lot of new material on the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 65put in the way of — or[put in one s way] {v. phr.} To set before (someone); give to (someone); show the way to; help toward. * /After Joe graduated, the coach put him in the way of a good job./ * /The librarian put me in the way of a lot of new material on the… …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 66put — [12] Put is one of the commonest of English verbs, but its origins are uncertain. It goes back to an Old English *putian, never actually recorded but inferred from the verbal noun putung ‘instigation’, but where that came from is not known. It… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 67put out of its misery — kill because it is suffering, put down    One of our dogs had diabetes, so we put it out of its misery …

    English idioms

  • 68put — [12] Put is one of the commonest of English verbs, but its origins are uncertain. It goes back to an Old English *putian, never actually recorded but inferred from the verbal noun putung ‘instigation’, but where that came from is not known. It… …

    Word origins

  • 69put — W1S1 [put] v past tense and past participle put present participle putting [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(move to place)¦ 2¦(change somebody s situation/feelings)¦ 3¦(write/print something)¦ 4¦(express)¦ 5 put a stop/an end to something 6 put something into… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 70put — [ put ] (past tense and past participle put) verb transitive *** ▸ 1 move something to position ▸ 2 cause to be in situation ▸ 3 write/print something ▸ 4 make someone go to place ▸ 5 give position on list ▸ 6 build/place somewhere ▸ 7 express in …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English