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put on verb phrase To assign (someone a task).

1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) They put it on me to place the standers, so our drivers driv the Easy Ridge and pole road. 1946 Matthias Speech Pine Mt 192 “Edna’s been puny, so I don’t put nothin’ on her” (i.e., I don’t make her work). 1959 Roberts Up Cutshin 33 Maybe the [choice in the group guessing game Pleased or Displeased] would be for one to go bark up the chimbly, or kneel down and pray, or whatever you put on him to do he had to do it. 1977 Shackelford et al Our Appalachia 262 Whatever the boss puts on them they take it and they won’t open their mouth.