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put up to

• encourage someone to do something wrong or unwise.
• "Who else would play a trick like that on me? I expect Rose put him up to it"
Similar: persuade to, encourage to, urge to, spur on to, egg on to, incite to, goad to,
• inform someone about something.
• "Ned's put me up to a good thing or two"


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