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Putting words in God’s mouth

Because that isn’t literally what the Bible does....
Hym “If man can’t literally speak with God, how is the Bible/All religious text not putting words in God’s mouth? (Which is something you accused me of doing) I don’t know, give my thing a couple of thousand years... We’ll see what happens...
by Hym Iam November 27, 2022
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put your head out of the stand!

Please start to pay attention to the surrounding around you!
I think you are gonna have to put your head out of the stand!—Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
by jilijili December 19, 2018
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A saying used when you’re trying to disguise one thing as another, and it’s blatantly incomparable.
Bob: I bought the same suit as Brad Pitt so I can look like him!
Tom: Bob, you can’t put a hat on a mouse and call it Abraham Lincoln.
by Beigepuppy01 June 14, 2025
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put the knife down

This term means “Stop hurting yourself or others while you are ahead”

Usually said by someone viewing a situation from the outside.

“Hurt” pertains to all possibilities of stress, pain, and anything alike.
Mark broke up with Liv and he just kept leading her on, he wouldn’t put the knife down.

Liv kept calling Mark out on things that were out of their control, Liv couldn’t put the knife down.
by sound recollection December 2, 2025
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putting my feet on

Term for putting on footwear, usually to go outside when you need to perform a task
Yes i'll go put the bins out in a minute, I'm just putting my feet on
by CroakerXXX November 30, 2023
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putting words in the horse's mouth

interrupting someone by finishing their sentences/words for them
boy, in an argument with his father:

boy: dad, sorry, I'll skip dinner tonight and (...)

father: (...) finish your chemistry and physics projects you are working on? That sure would be nice.

kodem koll, dad, stop putting words in the horse's mouth, it's rude. And FYI it's actually Spanish and Latin homework I was going to work on. I'll work on the chemistry and physics later
by Sexydimma January 15, 2014
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put air in my tire

I need to put air in my tire
by El Dudeareno June 15, 2023
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