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Phrase(s): put someone through something
to cause someone to have to endure something. • The doctor said he hated to put me through all these tests, but that it was medically necessary., Phrase(s): put someone or something through (to someone)
to put someone’s telephone call through to someone. • Will you please put me through to the international operator? • Please put my call through.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Bring to a successful conclusion, as in We put through a number of new laws. [Mid-1800s] 2. Make a telephone connection, as in Please put me through to the doctor. [Late 1800s] 3. Cause to undergo, especially something difficult or troublesome, as in He put me through a lot during this last year. The related expression, put someone through the wringer, means ‘‘to give someone a hard time," as in The lawyer put the witness through the wringer. The wringer alluded to is the old-fashioned clothes wringer, in which clothes are pressed between two rollers to extract moisture. [First half of 1900s]
American Heritage Idioms