Sentence | 1896, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, Detective, ch. 11: "I done the other things—Brace he put me up to it, and persuaded me, and promised he'd make me rich, some day, and I done it, and I'm sorry I done it." |
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Definition | ( idiomatic ) To https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic encourage or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage trick (someone) to perform an action which is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick foolish or https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foolish wrong .https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrong |
Tags: put, up, to
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