Put-through
[put-throo]Community Definitions1
To connect someone through a phone or teleprinter switchboard; figuratively, to arrange an introduction or smooth a deal for a friend.
“Don’t worry about your cousin’s railway apprentice form, Dad said he will put a good word through to the chief locomotive officer.”
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