put through

passer, mettre en communication

Mettre une personne au téléphone en relation avec la personne ou le service demandé.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : put someone through to someone/something (Could you put me through to the manager?); put someone through (Please hold while I put you through.)

Synonymes : connect, transfer

Contraires : disconnect

Expressions courantes : put through a call, put through to someone

faire subir, soumettre à

Faire vivre à quelqu’un une expérience difficile, désagréable ou éprouvante.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : put someone through something (The argument put our family through a lot of stress.)

Synonymes : subject to, make undergo

Contraires : spare

Expressions courantes : put through something, put through training

passer à travers, faire passer par

Faire passer quelque chose d’un côté à l’autre d’une ouverture.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : put something through something (Put the cable through the hole in the desk.)

Synonymes : pass through, push through

Expressions courantes : put through a hole, put through a slot

casser, fracasser

Casser une vitre en la frappant et en y faisant un trou.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : put a window through (Someone put our kitchen window through last night.)

Synonymes : smash, break

Expressions courantes : put through a window, put through the glass

envoyer seul au but

Faire une passe à un coéquipier pour qu’il se retrouve seul face au gardien et puisse marquer.

En anglais simple : 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?

Comment l'utiliser : put someone through on goal (Her pass put the striker through on goal.)

Synonymes : play through, send through

Expressions courantes : put someone through, put through a striker

transaction hors bourse

Opération réalisée hors de la bourse grâce à un intermédiaire qui met en relation un acheteur et un vendeur.

En anglais simple : 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.

Expressions courantes : a put through, broker’s put through