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Definition of put in (one's) place

put in (one's) place

verb

  • to deflate someone's over-inflated ego.
                                                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                                                         

    Citation from "Fear", Wilfred (TV), Season 1 Episode 3 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

    Last edited on Jul 26 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jul 26 2011.

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Other terms relating to 'in':

Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
Definitions include: a secret advantage.
Definitions include: involving everyone or everything.
Definitions include: doing something emphatically.
Definitions include: no chance.
Definitions include: something easy.
Definitions include: at some time before the present.
Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing.
Definitions include: included.
Definitions include: clitoris.
Definitions include: to intrude.
Definitions include: See barge in.
Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury
Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils.
Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time."

Other terms relating to 'place':

Definitions include: in an impossible situation.
Definitions include: an envisioned calm place.
Definitions include: a residence.
Definitions include: sleeping with someone.
Definitions include: to be in a location when not wanted there.

Other terms relating to 'put':

Definitions include: It means having to beat someone up.
Definitions include: acronym for "put it in your butt".
Definitions include: a pimp's primary prostitute.
Definitions include: place down
Definitions include: to be quiet; "shut up".
Definitions include: to risk everything on a single unlikely event.
Definitions include: to delay a topic until a future time.
Definitions include: to be quiet.
Definitions include: to incarcerate.
Definitions include: to kill an animal, usually due to injury, sickness, or disease.
Definitions include: to defecate liquid feces.
Definitions include: see in the buck.
Definitions include: to swear, to promise that something you have done happened.
Definitions include: make one stronger.
Definitions include: a deception.

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