"put it past" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-put it past.ogg [Australia] Forms: puts it past [present, singular, third-person], putting it past [participle, present], put it past [participle, past], put it past [past]
Etymology: From put past with placeholder it. Etymology templates: {{m|en|put past}} put past, {{m|en|it}} it Head templates: {{en-verb|put<,,put> it past}} put it past (third-person singular simple present puts it past, present participle putting it past, simple past and past participle put it past)
  1. (idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) To consider it beyond what someone is capable of doing. Tags: idiomatic

Inflected forms

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