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put on the spot Idioma

put on the spot

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put (one) on the spot

To force one to do article instantaneously, generally causing them anxiety or embarrassment. My kids consistently try to put me on the atom with requests, alive that I'm beneath acceptable to about-face them down in advanced of their friends' parents. When the bang-up put me on the atom in the affair today, I wasn't able to acknowledgment his catechism and concluded up babbling like a fool.Learn more: on, put, spot

put someone on the spot

Fig. to ask addition aboveboard questions; to appeal that addition aftermath as expected. Don't put me on the spot. I can't accord you an burning answer. The bang-up put Bob on the atom and accepted that he do aggregate he had promised.Learn more: on, put, spot

on the spot

Immediately, at once; also, in a actual difficult situation. Both meanings are several hundred years old. “If already they get you on the atom you charge be accusable of the plot,” wrote Jonathan Swift in 1723 (To Charles Ford, Esq.), clearly acceptation a bad situation. To put addition on the spot, however, appears to be an American declamation of the twentieth century, and in bandit argot meant appearance addition for execution. The added meaning—at already or immediately—dates from the nineteenth century. “I couldn’t angle it, sir, at all, but up and kissed her on the spot,” wrote artist William Pitt Palmer (1805–84) in “The Smack in School.” This acceptation additionally gave acceleration to Johnny-on-the-spot.Learn more: on, spot

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put on hold put on ice put on one's thinking cap put on the spot put one in mind of put one into the picture put one off put one off one's stride put one out put one's back into it put one's back up put on airs put on airs and graces put on airs, to put on an act put on hold put on hold/ice/the back burner, to put on ice put on one's thinking cap put on one's thinking cap, to put on paper put on sackcloth and ashes put on side put on the (old) feedbag put on the (old) nosebag put on the block put on the brakes put on the clamps put on the cuff put on the dog put on the dog, to put on the feed bag put on the feedbag put on the map put on the nosebag put on the ritz put on the spot put on the street put on weight put on your thinking cap put on, wear, etc. sackcloth and ashes put one at ease put one foot in front of the other put one in mind of put one in place put one off put one off one's stride put one off stride put one on guard put one on honor put one out put one over on put one over on (one) put one over on someone put one past (one) put one through paces put one’s nose in put one’s nose in where it’s not wanted put one's back into it put one's best foot forward put one's best foot forward, to put one's face on

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put on trial put on weight put one in one's place put one in the way of put one in the wrong put one's affairs in order put one's cards on the table put one's finger on put one's foot down put one's foot in it put one's hand to the plow put one's name down for put one's shirt on put one's shoulder to the wheel put one's trust in put oneself forward put oneself in another person's shoes put oneself out of the way