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putting someone to their trumps

putting someone to their trumps is the present participle and gerund 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 putting someone to their trumps

What is putting someone to their trumps the present participle and gerund of?
Putting someone to their trumps is the present participle and gerund of put someone to their trumps.

Words near putting someone to their trumps in the dictionary

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

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