PUT TO BED Definition & Meaning

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Complete something and either set it aside or send it on to the next step, as in We put the magazine to bed at ten , or They said they'd put the whole project to bed at least a month ago . This expression, transferring nighttime retirement to other kinds of completion, was first applied to a newspaper, where it meant “send to press,” that is, start to print. [Mid-1900s]

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He only gets one chance to ask for help, and his pleas come out so haltingly that it’s easy to see how someone might just think that Grandpa needs to be put to bed.

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“That risk is now put to bed,” Moffett wrote.

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Any lingering concerns about Kyrgios' physical state were put to bed with a hold to love in an opening service game which demonstrated he had lost none of his trademark power.

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In that fictional universe, the boy-king Joffrey was put to bed.

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As a practical matter, it is past time to put to bed the idea that no man is above the law.

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