put through
(to connect someone by telephone)
- Please hold the line. I’ll put you through to our manager.
- The operator put me through to the island.
informal (to make someone experience something unpleasant or difficult)
- She has put me through absolute hell recently.
- I’m sorry to put you through this terrible ordeal.
(to pay for someone to attend school, college, etc.)
- I have three kids to put through school.
- She worked a couple of jobs and put herself through college.