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put to bed |
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put someone to bed and send someone to bed to make someone go to bed. Mother put Jimmy to bed and kissed him. Sally was naughty and was sent to bed. put something to bed Fig. to complete work on something and send it on to the next step in production, especially in publishing. (From put someone to bed.) This week's edition is finished. Let's put it to bed. Finish the editing of this book and put it to bed. put something to bed if you put something that is printed, for example a book or magazine, to bed, you finish writing it We put the first edition to bed an hour before the deadline. put something to bed 1. to finish dealing with something This is an opportunity for us to put some of these problems to bed. 2. to get a newspaper, magazine, or book ready to be printed You put the paper to bed and you're proud of it, but the next morning you find the world has changed while it's been printed. 3. to clean a garden after the plants have died It takes about two weeks to put the garden to bed. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of put someone to bed (to help someone get ready to lie down in bed and sleep) 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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All over the district people were dining and supping; working men were gardening after the labours of the day, children were being put to bed, young people were wandering through the lanes love-making, stu- dents sat over their books. "My opinion is," exclaimed Jehanne de la Tarme, "that it would be better for the louts of Paris, if this little magician were put to bed on a fagot than on a plank. Lastly, Ophelia was a prey to such slow musical madness, that when, in course of time, she had taken off her white muslin scarf, folded it up, and buried it, a sulky man who had been long cooling his impatient nose against an iron bar in the front row of the gallery, growled, "Now the baby's put to bed let's have supper |
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