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put someone up to
Idioms and Phrases
Incite someone to do something, especially a mischievous or malicious act. For example, My brother put me up to making those prank telephone calls , or They didn't think of it on their own; someone put them up to it . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
"Someone from Discogs messaged me last week, informing me that they'd had this sale, and I thought, 'It's a wind-up, one of my mates must've must have put someone up to something' - because it just seemed farcical," he explains.
“It was so completely out of the blue, I thought my husband had put someone up to it, that it was a joke, so I ended the call,†she says, laughing.
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