PUT IT TO Definition & Meaning

put it to

Blame on, as in They didn't know who broke the window so they put it to Sam .
Present something in a forceful, candid manner to someone, as in I can't put it to you any more clearly—stay away from the electrical equipment .
Take unfair advantage, cheat, as in That used-car dealer really put it to Betty .
Present for consideration, as in Let's put it to a vote , or I put it to you, I did the best I could under the circumstances . [Mid-1700s]
Overburden with tasks or work, as in They really put it to him, expecting to do all the packing .

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Folks in government here had picked up a sense of the mood music – a sense that the UK was "in the good camp rather than the bad camp" as one figure put it to me – but they had no idea in advance what that would mean exactly.

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Folk in government in the UK had picked up a sense of the mood music – a sense that the UK was "in the good camp rather than the bad camp" as one figure put it to me – but they had no idea in advance precisely what that would mean.

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But he was decidedly against holding any officials accountable for what had occurred, preferring, as he so memorably put it, to “look forward, not backward.”

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He changed his mind after a “spiritual pilgrimage,” as he put it, to the theater in Petaluma where Bradley Nowell played his final gig.

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Across the pond - aka the Atlantic - Europe's leaders and policy-makers felt "sick to their stomach", as an EU official put it to me.

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