- put across
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transitive verb
Date: 1919
1. put over 3
2. to convey effectively or forcefully <put her viewpoint across subtly>
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
put across
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put across — index explain Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
put across — phrasal verb put across or put over [transitive] Word forms put across : present tense I/you/we/they put across he/she/it puts across present participle putting across past tense put across past participle put across 1) to explain an idea, belief … English dictionary
put across — verb transmit information Please communicate this message to all employees pass along the good news • Syn: ↑communicate, ↑pass on, ↑pass, ↑pass along • Derivationally related forms: ↑comm … Useful english dictionary
put across — {v.} 1. To explain clearly; make yourself understood; communicate. * /He knew how to put his ideas across./ Compare: GET ACROSS. 2. {informal} To get (something) done successfully; bring to success; make real. * /He put across a big sales… … Dictionary of American idioms
put across — {v.} 1. To explain clearly; make yourself understood; communicate. * /He knew how to put his ideas across./ Compare: GET ACROSS. 2. {informal} To get (something) done successfully; bring to success; make real. * /He put across a big sales… … Dictionary of American idioms
put\ across — v 1. To explain clearly; make yourself understood; communicate. He knew how to put his ideas across. Compare: get across 2. informal To get (smth) done successfully; bring to success; make real. He put across a big sales campaign. The new… … Словарь американских идиом
put across — verb a) to explain or state something clearly and understandably. All good communicators try to use popular, well understood examples to put across complex ideas. b) to perform a theatrical production. Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum … Wiktionary
put across — phr verb Put across is used with these nouns as the object: ↑message … Collocations dictionary
put across — explain clearly, make oneself understood He spends a lot of effort trying to put across clearly what he wants to say … Idioms and examples
put across — put over we need to put our message across more clearly Syn: communicate, convey, get across/over, explain, make clear, spell out, clarify; get through to someone … Thesaurus of popular words
put across — or put over PHRASAL VERB When you put something across or put it over, you succeed in describing or explaining it to someone. [V n P] He has taken out a half page advertisement in his local paper to put his point across … English dictionary
