put the wind up

Related to put the wind up: get wind of, throwing caution to the wind

put the wind up (someone)

To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!

put (or have) the wind up

alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal

One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’.

词组	put the wind up
释义	put the wind up Related to put the wind up: get wind of, throwing caution to the wind put the wind up (someone) To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them! See also: put, up, wind Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. put (or have) the wind up alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened). British informal One of the earliest recorded uses of this expression was in a letter from the poet Wilfred Owen in 1918 : ‘Shells so close that they thoroughly put the wind up a Life Guardsman in the trench with me’. See also: put, up, wind Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: put the wind up (someone) put the wind up somebody put the wind up someone get the wind up (one) get/have the wind up have the wind up frighten be frightened to death scared to death your hair stands on end
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