put up to | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Toencourageortrick(someone) to perform an action which isfoolishorwrong.1895,Stephen Crane,A Mystery of Heroism:"He's goin' to that well there after water.""We ain't dyin' of thirst, are we? That's foolishness.""Well, somebodyput him up toit, an' he's doin' it."1896,Mark Twain, chapter 11, inTom Sawyer, Detective:"I done the other things—Brace heput me up toit, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it."1936December 21, “Foreign News: Gloucester”, inTime, retrieved2 July 2015:This week in London the hero of Mayfair matrons is the next-to-youngest brother of Edward VIII, His Royal Highness Henry, the Duke of Gloucester. . . . Gloucester's young Scottish Duchessput him up totelling the King-Emperor after Mrs. Simpson's departure (TIME, Dec. 14), "You are a damn fool if you run after her now!" For his pains, Gloucester got slapped.2008April 29, Marc Lacey, “'Virtual kidnappings' in Mexico play on very real fears”, inNew York Times, retrieved2 July 2015:[T]hree suspects were brothers, ages 19, 31 and 34, who were caught collecting money squeezed from a victim. The two younger brothers blamed their older sibling, who has been in and out of prison for years, forputting them up toit.

Examples:

EN: I've got a proposition to put up to you.
ES: Tengo una propuesta para ti.
EN: A monument ought to be put up to that pre-war fraternity of high school speed maniacs, for out of their ranks, our fighter pilots are largely drawn.
ES: La estrecha relación previa a la guerra de estos adictos a la velocidad merece un monumento. Sus rangos no importan, todos se llevan bien.
EN: - I think you were put up to it.
ES: - Creo que te empujaron a hacerlo.
EN: Adam... I asked you over here today... because I've got a little proposition to put up to you.
ES: Adam... te pedí que vinieras... porque tengo una pequeña proposición para ti.
EN: I ain't gonna trouble you fellas none because I know you was all just put up to it.
ES: No me enojaré con ustedes porque sé que están bromeando.
ES: No me enojaré con ustedes porque sé que están bromeando.
EN: I wonder what that thing is they put up to their foreheads, Barbara?
ES: Me pregunto ¿Qué es esa cosa empiezan en la frente, Barbara.
EN: The sign has obviously been put up to make people think that it is a civilian project.
ES: la señal se coloco obviamente para que la gente piense que es un proyecto civil
EN: The prosecution claims that it's a smokescreen which you put up to make the jury doubt what happened.
ES: La fiscalía afirma que es una cortina de humo que ha orquestado para que el jurado dude de los hechos.
EN: We had an interesting idea put up to us this morning about the last film.
ES: Se nos ocurrió una idea interesante. esta mañana sobre la última película.
EN: You've been put up to this, bribed to upset my natural rhythm and ruin my health.
ES: Tu has tramado esto, sobornando, ...para trastornar mi ritmo natural y arruinar mi salud.
EN: It's just a front we put up to keep you from walking all over us.
ES: Es sólo una fachada que ponemos para evitar que nos pisotees.
EN: Vulcan is the weather satellite our government put up to monitor the weather.
ES: Vulcan es el satélite que lanzamos para registrar el tiempo.
EN: I was put up to it. I was paid!
ES: Me obligaron a hacerlo. ¡Me pagaron!
EN: You can put up to 300 boxes of cigarettes in it
ES: Puede cargar 300 cajas de cigarrillos.
EN: People were put up to it by the Communists and Jewish people who didn't know... that Florian was also in a concentration camp.
ES: Las organizaban los comunistas y los judíos que no sabían... que Florian también había estado en un campo de concentración.

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