put the wind up (someone)

To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!See also: put, up, wind

put the wind up someone

mainly BRITISH, INFORMALIf someone or something puts the wind up you, they make you afraid or worried. The delay put the wind up me because, by then, I knew something was very wrong. He has already put the wind up his management team by speaking of cuts. Note: You can also say that someone gets the wind up when they become afraid or worried. He got the wind up when he learned of their investigations.See also: put, someone, up, wind

put (or have) the wind up

alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’.See also: put, up, wind

put the ˈwind up somebody

(British English, informal) make somebody frightened about something: He really put the wind up her with his stories of rats in the kitchen.See also: put, somebody, up, wind

单词	put the wind up (someone)
释义	put the wind up (someone) put the wind up (someone) To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!See also: put, up, wind put the wind up someone mainly BRITISH, INFORMALIf someone or something puts the wind up you, they make you afraid or worried. The delay put the wind up me because, by then, I knew something was very wrong. He has already put the wind up his management team by speaking of cuts. Note: You can also say that someone gets the wind up when they become afraid or worried. He got the wind up when he learned of their investigations.See also: put, someone, up, wind put (or have) the wind up alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’.See also: put, up, wind put the ˈwind up somebody (British English, informal) make somebody frightened about something: He really put the wind up her with his stories of rats in the kitchen.See also: put, somebody, up, wind
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