put wise

Idioms  

1. Inform or enlighten someone, as in You'd better put Arthur wise about the protocol before he visits them. [Colloquial; early 1900s]

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put wise

The 2014 induction would be skipped, with the extra time used to put wise heads together and reevaluate the selection process.

From Golf Digest ● Oct. 22, 2014

I'm blunt, but it's just as well for you to be put wise quick.

From The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey

Course I'd been put wise to who this Cuyler Morrison De Kay was.

From Shorty McCabe on the Job by Sewell Ford

The poet should not make clowns the companions of kings, nor put wise counsels into the mouth of fools.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark

She must say brought, and not brung; she must say tell, and not put wise; she must not kick, but show displeasure.

From The Dust Flower by Hibberd V. B. (Hibberd Van Buren) Kline

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