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puts someone to their trumps

puts someone to their trumps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put someone to their trumps.

Meaning of put someone to their trumps

Verb

put someone to their trumps (third-person singular simple present puts someone to their trumps, present participle putting someone to their trumps, simple past and past participle put someone to their trumps)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) To put someone in a difficult situation.
    • But when Kings come ſo low, as to fawn upon Philoſophie, which before they neither vau'd nor underſtood, tis a ſigne that failes not, they are then put to their laſt Trump.1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter VI, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 57

Questions about puts someone to their trumps

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Puts someone to their trumps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of put someone to their trumps.

Words near puts someone to their trumps in the dictionary

  1. puts someone on blast
  2. puts someone on game
  3. puts someone on ice
  4. puts someone on to
  5. puts someone out of their misery
  6. puts someone to their trumps
  7. puts someone under
  8. puts someone under the screw
  9. puts someone wise
  10. puts someone's back up
  11. puts someone's light out

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