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(idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller with intended callee). / (idiomatic) to cause to endure / (transitive, UK) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.

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put through

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put through

Verb

idiomatic UK transitive

(idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller with intended callee). / (idiomatic) to cause to endure / (transitive, UK) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.

Japanese Meaning

（電話で）発信者を相手先につなぐこと / （他人に）苦労や困難を経験させること / （英国英語で）窓などを破壊して開口部を作ること

What is this buttons?

The receptionist put him through to the manager after confirming his identity.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

受付係は本人確認のあと、彼をマネージャーに取り次いだ。

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Sense（1）

(idiomatic) To connect (a telephone caller with intended callee).

Please hold the line a moment while I put you through to the sales office.

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Sense（2）

(idiomatic) to cause to endure

After all the grief my wife has put me through, I wonder why I'm still with her.

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Sense（3）

(transitive, UK) To smash (e.g. a window) so as to create an opening.

Playing football brought people together – we’d play against any brick wall, on any kerb, or see if we could put the window through in the art department.

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