put at someone's disposal



put at someone's disposal

Allow one to use, as in They put their car at our disposal for our entire stay. This idiom employs disposal in the sense of "the liberty or power to use something," a usage dating from the early-1600s.
See also: disposal, put

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Philomela-Greek Mythology
CandiceKAN-disEnglish
CiceroSIS-ə-ro (English)Ancient Roman
Melittame-LI-tah (German)Ancient Greek, German
Avani-Indian, Marathi, Gujarati
Yiftach-Biblical Hebrew