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put in place |
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put someone in their place to let someone know that they are not as important as they think they are. She didn't like my suggestions at all. I was put firmly in my place, like a naughty schoolgirl. See also: place put yourself in someone's place to imagine that you are someone else and have to do what they do. Now put yourself in the place of a policeman who is afraid and has to arrest a big guy with a knife. See also: place How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This wantonness and folly did I put in place of that Will, when I taught that "In everything there is one thing impossible--rationality The point was that in the lodge that was being built the carpenter had spoiled the staircase, fitting it together without calculating the space it was to fill, so that the steps were all sloping when it was put in place. Staid, statistical articles were published, proving that he had made his start by robbing poor miners of their claims, and that the capstone to his fortune had been put in place by his treacherous violation of faith with the Guggenhammers in the deal on Ophir. |
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