Idiom
put up
Meaning
To cajole or dare (someone) to do (something).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.”
Examples
simple
“He put me up to asking her out.”
contextual
“My friends put me up to calling in sick so we could go to the beach.”
complex
“She suspected her rival had put the naive intern up to leaking the documents, though neither would admit it.”
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