Meaning of put to the blush | Babel Free

Definitions

To cause to blush with shame; to put to shame.

transitive

Examples

“I am glad he is gon, a put me to the blush When a did aske me of ritch Somerfields death.”

“I remember I was once put very much to the Blush, being at a Friend’s House, and by him requir’d to salute the Ladies, I kiss’d the Chamber-Jade in to the bargain, for she was as well dress’d as the best.”

“The tempting prospect of putting to the blush people who stand at the head of affairs—that supreme and piquant enjoyment of those who writhe under the heel of the same—had alone animated them, so far as he could see;”

“His politeness to Blanquette would have put to the blush any young man at the Bon Marché or the Louvre.”

“Like some misborn, deformed, and monstrous kid Who puts his family to the blush, Whose presence in a cellar must be hid And his existence in a hush!”

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