put the wind up

put the wind up (someone)

To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!See also: put, up, wind

put (or have) the wind up

alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’.See also: put, up, wind

单词	put the wind up
释义	DictionarySeewind put the wind up put the wind up (someone) To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!See also: put, up, wind put (or have) the wind up alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’.See also: put, up, wind
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