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Meaning of put the wind up | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

To frighten or disturb.

British, informal, transitive

Examples

“P. G. Wodehouse I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.”

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

put the wood in the hole put the world to rights put through put through the mangle put through the mill put through the wringer