put the wind up

put the wind up
put (or have) the wind up
Brit., informal alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened)

he was trying to put the wind up him with stories of how hard teaching was

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put the wind up (someone)
Brit informal : to make (someone) afraid or nervous

I tried to put the wind up him by threatening to call the police.

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