Question

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, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it."

Accepted Answer

(idiomatichttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic) To encouragehttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage or trickhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolishhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foolish or wronghttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrong.

Sentence	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, somebody put him up to it, an' he's doin' it."
Definition	( idiomatic https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#idiomatic ) To encourage https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/encourage or trick https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/foolish or wrong https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrong .

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