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put across

verb

adverb to communicate in a comprehensible way
he couldn't put things across very well
put one across informal.
put one across to get (someone) to accept or believe a claim, excuse, etc, by deception
they put one across their teacher

The slaves fell away from him in surprise and alarm, not understanding what he was trying to put across.

Recover our canoe, and put across the lake to where Will stands on that dock.

The ninth game went to forty-love before Holt succeeded in handling one of the sizzling serves that Amy put across.

It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.

"Some pretty shady transactions were put across in those early days," Bryant commented.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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