put (someone) through (something)

1. to force someone to experience something unpleasant in order to help them.

His teacher put him through six months of writing essays every day to improve his skills.

2. to unintentionally cause someone to experience something painful.

Elaine put her daughter through a kind of hell when she divorced the child's father.

• not have a minute to call your own
• not have a monopoly on
• not have a monopoly on something
• not have a pot to piss in
• not have a prayer
• not have a snowball's chance in hell
• not have a type of bone in body
• not have a type of bone in your body
• not have much going for
• not have much going for you
• not have much time
• not have much time someone
• not have much time something
• not have the faintest
• not have the faintest idea
• not have the foggiest idea
• not have the foggiest notion
• not have the heart
• not have the heart to
• not have the heart to do something
• not have the stomach
• not have the stomach for
• not have the stomach for something
• not have two pennies to rub together
• nothing but