put the wind up (someone)

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put the wind up (someone)

To make someone very anxious, upset, or frightened. If they keep putting pressure on you, we'll threaten them with legal action; that should put the wind up them!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Markus	MAHR-kuws (German), MAHR-koos (Finnish)	German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Chandra	-	Hinduism, Bengali, Indian, Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Nepali
BurÇİN	-	Turkish
Ibrahim	-	Arabic, Malay, Indonesian
Leberecht	LE-be-rekht	German
Catalina	kah-tah-LEE-nah	Spanish