put across
verb1
to explain or state something clearly and understandably.
- All good communicators try to use popular, well-understood examples to put across complex ideas.
2
to convey or communicate.
- Yet, though the piece is preposterous hokum, the show is put across with enormous zest.2007 September 14, Michael Billington, “Bad Girls, the musical”, in The Guardian:
- Related terms
- put oneself across