put someone wise
verb- Let me put you wise to what's going on.
- 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[…]1916 March 11, “[advertisement]Jim Henry, Optimist”, in Saturday Evening Post:
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- "Right you are; I'll put him wise," undertook Nickle briskly.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London: