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picks up what someone is putting down

picks up what someone is putting down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pick up what someone is putting down.

Meaning of pick up what someone is putting down

Verb

pick up what someone is putting down (third-person singular simple present picks up what someone is putting down, present participle picking up what someone is putting down, simple past and past participle picked up what someone was putting down)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does.
    • Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.2004 November 2, Melanie McFarland, “TV anchors keep to their word”, in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, retrieved 24 May 2014

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Picks up what someone is putting down is the third-person singular simple present indicative of pick up what someone is putting down.

Words near picks up what someone is putting down in the dictionary

  1. picks up the slack
  2. picks up the tab
  3. picks up the threads
  4. picks up the threads of
  5. picks up what someone is laying down
  6. picks up what someone is putting down
  7. picksies
  8. picksman
  9. picksmen
  10. picksome
  11. picksomeness

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