put the wind up
verb- P. G. Wodehouse I find it extraordinarily difficult to explain why it is that she has always put the wind up me to such a frightful extent.
- They found out that I had gone somewhere, couldn't get in touch, and that put the wind up and they began to imagine everything.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:
- Related terms
- get the wind up, have the wind up