| 单词 | to put it up to a person |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put it up to a person f. transitive. Originally and chiefly U.S. To present or submit (a question, statement, etc.) to a person for consideration or response. Esp. in to put it up to a person: = to put it to a person at sense 23a(b). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > ask, enquire [verb (transitive)] > ask a question askOE puta1350 inquirea1400 speera1500 demand1502 pose1862 to put up1901 lob1952 the mind > mental capacity > belief > suggestion, proposal > suggest [verb (transitive)] > for consideration puta1350 purposea1382 propone1402 motion1505 exhibit1529 propound?1531 prefer1539 raise1566 to put forward1569 broach1579 start1579 offer1583 propose1614 first1628 to put it to a person1664 moot1685 suppose1771 pose1862 to put up1901 1901 N.Y. Tribune 26 Oct. 2/2 If this be not true, the candidate does not deny it. Much as we have put it up to him, we cannot wring an answer from Shepard. 1903 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 May 4/4 Secretary Johnston,..in common parlance, has put up the question to the Railroad Commission in the matter of abolishing the Galveston-Houston differential. 1906 Harper's Mag. June 68/1 When he finally put it up to me what I would do,—‘It would depend,’ I answered, ‘on what it was the woman has done.’ 1950 F. B. Gilbreth & E. G. Carey Belles on their Toes xxi. 228 When Ernestine put the proposition up to Mother the next day, she might as well have saved her breath. 1957 H. V. Harper Days & Customs All Faiths iii. 82 He had been told in a vision that God had put it up to him to make the selection for her. 1991 E. P. Herring in M. A. Baer et al. Polit. Sci. in Amer. 37 We got him down to my office and put it up to him, you know, for the good of the cause. < as lemmas |
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