to make someone seem silly by pretending to speak or behave like them
to send someone to prison
Cutter would send up `trial balloons", what people in the consumer-products business called test-marketing.
He sends the prime minister up brilliantly.
He was sent up for 10 years.
She would hurry as soon as she was out of sight and run downstairs and perhaps send up one of the attendants.
You may ask Aunt Mathilda and Uncle Titus to send up some food and my bed!
`The Americans can't send up any planes, can't see their noses.
sends up
sending up
sent up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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