put through

To connect someone’s phone call to the person or department they want.

• I’ll put you through now.
• She put me through to the accounts department.
• Can you put this call through to my office?

How to use it: put someone through to someone/something (Could you put me through to the manager?); put someone through (Please hold while I put you through.)

Similar words: connect, transfer

Opposites: disconnect

Common phrases: put through a call, put through to someone

To make someone experience something difficult, unpleasant, or demanding.

• Don’t put me through this again.
• The coach put us through a tough workout.
• She has been put through months of painful tests.

How to use it: put someone through something (The argument put our family through a lot of stress.)

Similar words: subject to, make undergo

Opposites: spare

Common phrases: put through something, put through training

To move something from one side of an opening to the other.

• Put the letter through the slot.
• She put a thread through the needle.
• Can you put your hand through that gap?

How to use it: put something through something (Put the cable through the hole in the desk.)

Similar words: pass through, push through

Common phrases: put through a hole, put through a slot

To break a window by hitting it and making a hole in it.

• Someone put the window through.
• The vandals put three shop windows through.
• A thrown brick put the front window through.

How to use it: put a window through (Someone put our kitchen window through last night.)

Similar words: smash, break

Common phrases: put through a window, put through the glass

To pass a ball to a teammate so they can face the goalkeeper alone and try to score.

• His pass put me through on goal.
• The midfielder put their striker through with a clever ball.
• Can you put her through before the defenders catch up?

How to use it: put someone through on goal (Her pass put the striker through on goal.)

Similar words: play through, send through

Common phrases: put someone through, put through a striker

A deal in which a broker brings a buyer and seller together outside the stock exchange.

• The broker arranged a put through.
• Both parties agreed on the price for the put through.
• The shares changed hands in a put through outside the exchange.

Common phrases: a put through, broker’s put through