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put to bed |
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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. See also: bed 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) See also: bed |
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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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