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Phrase(s): put pressure on something
to apply weight or pressure to something. (See also put (the) pressure on someone (to do something).) • Put pressure on the wound to stop the bleeding. • Put some pressure on the papers to flatten them out., Phrase(s): put (the) pressure on someone (to do something)
to make demands on someone; to try to get someone to do something. • Please don’t put pressure on me to go there! • We put the pressure on him to get him to come, but he refused.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs