put someone wise

put someone wise

English

Verb

put someone wise (third-person singular simple present puts someone wise, present participle putting someone wise, simple past and past participle put someone wise)

1. (dated, slang, often with to) To explain; to inform of something.

   Let me put you wise to what's going on.

   • 1916 March 11, “[advertisement]Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post‎:

     If each of you men who wrote me last year and told me what a regular fellow I was for putting you wise to our Shaving Cream, and what great stuff it was, would just tell your friends […]