“someone\'s”

The following 412 entries include the term someone\'s.

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prey/weigh on someone's mind

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: to be causing someone worry

prick someone's conscience

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: to make someone feel guilty

pull someone's leg

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: to make someone believe something that is not true as a joke : to trick or lie to someone in a playful way

pull the wool over someone's eyes

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: to trick or deceive someone : to hide the truth from someone

pull/yank someone's chain

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: to deceive someone in a friendly or playful way : play a joke on someone

punch someone's lights out

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: to hit someone's face hard with a fist

put ideas in/into someone's head

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: to cause someone to have ideas or suspicions that he or she would not have had otherwise

put someone's back up

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: to offend or annoy someone : to make someone angry or ready to argue

put someone's name down

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: to write down a person's name on a list of people (to be included in something) : to include someone among the people who will participate in something

putty in someone's hands

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used of someone that another person is able to control very easily

put words in/into someone's mouth

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: to suggest that someone said or meant something that he or she did not actually say or mean

queer (someone's) pitch

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: to spoil or ruin something planned, arranged, or attempted

rain on someone's parade

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: to spoil someone's pleasure

rap someone's knuckles

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: to criticize or punish someone in a gentle way for doing something wrong

rattle someone's cage

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: to make someone feel worried or upset

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