put the wind up
English edit
Verb edit
put the wind up (third-person singular simple present puts the wind up, present participle putting the wind up, simple past and past participle put the wind up)
- (informal, transitive, British) To frighten or disturb.
- P. G. Wodehouse
- I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.
- P. G. Wodehouse