put (one) in power
put (one) in power
To give someone some degree of political power, as through election or appointment. I don't know how people could have put such a brutal tyrant in power. Everyone knows the government has been putting puppets in power around the world to further its own interests.
See also: power, put
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- put (one) into power
- put into power
- in power
- come into power
- get into power
- be in power
- people power
- power
- power up
- fall from power