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81put away — [v2] incarcerate certify, commit, confine, institutionalize, jail, lock up; concept 317 Ant. free, liberate put away [v3] consume devour, eat up, gobble*, gulp down, polish off*, punish, put down, shift, swill, wolf down*; concept 169 Ant.… …
82put (someone) off (their) stride — British, American & Australian, British & Australian to take someone s attention away from what they are doing so they are not able to do it well. She was making funny faces at me, trying to put me off my stroke. When I m playing chess, the… …
83off´-put´ting|ly — off put|ting «AWF PUT ihng, OF », adjective. British Informal. disconcerting; annoying; discouraging: »Inspection is a bad word; it is politically off putting (London Guardian). –off´ put´ting|ly, adverb …
84off-put|ting — «AWF PUT ihng, OF », adjective. British Informal. disconcerting; annoying; discouraging: »Inspection is a bad word; it is politically off putting (London Guardian). –off´ put´ting|ly, adverb …
85put somebody off their stride — put sb off their ˈstride idiom to make sb take their attention off what they are doing and stop doing it so well • The shouting from the back of the hall completely put me off my stride. Main entry: ↑strideidiom …
86off calendar — Refers to a court order to take a lawsuit, petition, or motion off the list of pending proceedings. The reasons might be that the lawyers agreed (stipulated) to drop or postpone the case, the moving party s lawyer failed to appear, the suit has… …
87off-putting — off .putting adj BrE if someone s behaviour or the appearance of something is off putting, you do not like it or you think it is unattractive ▪ Some women found the competitive style of the discussions off putting. >off puttingly adv →put… …
88off|put — «AWF PUT, OF », transitive verb, put, put|ting. British Informal. to disconcert; annoy …
89put someone off their stride — phrase to upset or trouble someone He wasn’t going to let a bit of heckling put him off his stride. Thesaurus: to cause problems for someone or somethingsynonym Main entry: stride …
90Put-in-Bay — (po͝ot ĭn bāʹ) A bay of western Lake Erie in an island off Ohio. The U.S. Navy under Oliver Hazard Perry defeated a British fleet here on September 10, 1813, in the War of 1812. * * * ▪ Ohio, United States village, Ottawa county, northern… …
