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put the wind up in British English informal to frighten or alarm See full dictionary entry for windExamples of 'put the wind up' in a sentenceput the wind up Our Lyndsey put the wind up you good and proper, didn't she?It should put the wind up its rivals, if not its passengers.The shoppers put the wind up them.But he can put the wind up the more affluent target market.Here are the best events to put the wind up your little horrors.That is a prospect that ought to put the wind up one or two people.Retailers are obsessed with market share and it wouldn't take many of you to vote with your wallets to put the wind up them.It put the wind up regulators, which put in force, slowly, changes that made trading more onerous.At any rate, it was highly technical, graph-heavy and incomprehensible, which really put the wind up me.But memories of him putting the wind up batsmen are fading fast. |