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Tommy Tran
2022-04-16 04:04
Put the wind up (someone) British informal verb phrase
To make someone feel very nervous.
A: "If you don't do as I told you, I'll tell expose your secret." B: "Don't try to put the wind up me like that. It's not gonna work!"
Just tell your students that you'll give them a lower mark if they don't behave, that'll put the wind up them!
Make someone extremely frightened
To frighten or terrify someone abruptly or severely
To scare someone.
To do something likely to cause trouble.
To frighten or worry someone by doing something.
The verb "put" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase was first recorded 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."
Do you see anything wrong?
Used to describe someone or something that is very cool or good
Wow, your cap is really funky fresh.
