# put up

idiom

Source: https://englishreference.com/idiom/put-up
Updated: 2026-08-10

## Meaning

To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).

## Examples

- He put me up to asking her out.
- My friends put me up to calling in sick so we could go to the beach.
- She suspected her rival had put the naive intern up to leaking the documents, though neither would admit it.

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