put someone on Idiom
Put someone on a pedestal
If you put someone on a pedestal, you admire them greatly, idolise them.
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v. To play a joke on someone by saying or doing things that are only pretense; kid.
When the voice on the phone told Mrs. Jones she had won a $10,000 prize, she thought someone was putting her on.
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put (one) on
To aggravate or antic with one, generally by aggravating to argue them of article untrue. Quit putting me on, I apperceive there isn't a Hollywood administrator calling me appropriate now. I love putting my sister on—it's about too accessible to fool her.Learn more: on, putput addition on
1. tv. to aggravate or deceive addition artlessly and in fun. Come on! You’re aloof putting me on!
2. tv. to acquaint addition to cannabis use, usually smoking. (Drugs.) Where did you get that stuff? Who put you on? Learn more: on, put, someone
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