put someone through—
1. cause smb. to go through an operation, a course of study, etc.:
- I was able to put all my students through, except three whose English was the weakest.
2. put smb. in touch with a person by telephone:
- He lifted the receiver—listened and then said: “Put her through.”
put someone through it—subject a person to a severe test or trying experience:
- Evidently she had been put through it in the interval, for she was crying bitterly.