2018年1月19日 · - To put s.o. down 1. To insult, mock, belittle, or disparage one. - The boss is always putting me down in front of everyone in the office. It's really making my life miserable. - Tommy, don't put your brother down like that—if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything. put someone down

2009年8月25日 · In a more general sense, to "put down stakes" is to settle somewhere: to establish a residence, set up a business, or the like. After living all over the world, he finally decided to put down stakes near his home town in Pennsylvania. The opposite expression (which I think is more common) is to "pull up stakes," meaning to move away from a ...

2020年5月12日 · To put it in a different way to sound shift, 'putting' , i.e. to use the verb 'put' on its own to mean 'to place an object', is not possible - it needs to be completed by an adverbial modification; this may be a single adverb (down, up, away etc), an adverb phrase (on the table, in the cupboard, over the wall etc.) or even an adverbial clause (e.g.

2011年10月19日 · You're fine to ask this: put down is a versatile phrase. You can put down a book, put something down in writing, put someone down with a put-down, put it down to nerves, and put down a fire. (Obviously some of those have a word between put and down.) Anyway, I would be surprised if there weren't other uses for it, with and without additional words.

2021年11月30日 · Putting your name down has a particular sense in the context of our archaic education system. Parents are said to "put their child's name down" at birth for a place in a privileged and wildly expensive school such as Eton. Either might refer to something which may not happen for a while. As you say, it's often a matter of getting on to a ...

2019年7月29日 · 5 put somebody off (something) British English to let someone leave a vehicle at a particular place I’ll put you off at the supermarket. 12 LEAVE PASSENGER put somebody down British English to stop a vehicle so that passengers can get off at a particular place He asked the taxi to put him down at the end of the road.

2016年8月23日 · Now suppose you want someone to put something down you can either say: A. Put down the pen. B. Put the pen down. 'A' feels like the SWAT team is yelling, "Put down the pen!" It doesn't sound natural. (Beng aware of the idiom 'put down an animal' is another reason why it feels odd to me.) 'B' sounds natural.

2016年7月11日 · Hi, I am not sure which preposition to use when I say that I want to add something to my calendar. Is it to put something "in" or 'on" my calendar, or if both are correct? I have done a quick search on the English-Only forum, but couldn't really find a …

2007年8月21日 · put (sth) down (somewhere) (AIRCRAFT) phrasal verb [M] When an aircraft puts down, it lands, and when pilots put down their aircraft, they land: e.g. She put down safely in the corner of the airfield.

2014年11月12日 · 1. I want to cut down my weight.2. I want to cut my weight down.3. I want to put down my weight.4. I want to put my weight down.Of all the above 4, both "cut down" and "put down" are intended to mean "reduce".I think "verb + preposition" usually follows the structure "verb + preposition + noun", so sentences 1 & 4 seems correct structurally.