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单词 put someone up to
释义

put someone up to

1 informal Encourage someone to do (something wrong or unwise): Who else would play a trick like that on me? I expect Rose put him up to it...
  • It is not the sort of thing I would expect Junior to do and I can only believe he has been put up to it.
  • The informants claimed they were put up to everything by O'Dowd.
  • It had to be some sort of dare someone put him up to.

Synonyms

persuade to, encourage to, urge to, spur on to, egg on to, incite to, goad to
2 archaic Inform someone about (something): Ned’s put me up to a good thing or two...
  • He put me up to one or two things worth knowing.
  • How was it that all the clever people of Cambridge had never put him up to this simple rejoinder?
  • My husband had a long talk with Mr. Brewster, who put him up to all that had happened.
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