Idiom
put one past
Meaning
To deceive, trick, or fool (someone), especially by concealing something.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“You cannot put anything past him.”
“He is very observant, so do not try to put anything past him.”
“Given her sharp intellect and years of experience, her colleagues knew better than to attempt to put anything past her during the negotiations.”
Examples
simple
“You cannot put anything past him.”
contextual
“He is very observant, so do not try to put anything past him.”
complex
“Given her sharp intellect and years of experience, her colleagues knew better than to attempt to put anything past her during the negotiations.”
Origin
From the verb *put* combined with the preposition *past*, used with the placeholder *one*.
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