to put on a pedestal
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6.0
- phrasal verb
- Informal
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idealizar
- America put him on a pedestal, and Americans love knocking people off as well.
- put women on a pedestal
- put people on a pedestal
- want to put on a pedestal
The classic love bomber puts you on a pedestal, knocks you down, and catches you.
- The classic love bomber puts you on a pedestal, knocks you down, and catches you.
- In our own culture, we have, we've put on a pedestal more corpulent women.
- So they have to put you on a pedestal to help drive the grandiosity.
- The great mental flaw of this room is that you put on a pedestal if you're successful.
- Not you, Andy, but we need to start putting losses and adversity on a pedestal, not hiding it.
- People with a fixed mindset said their ideal soulmate would put them on a pedestal, make them feel perfect, and worship them.
- This person who has become a prime time predator is now put up on a pedestal.
- Do you think that there is a problem in being too heavily reliant or putting heroic stories up on a pedestal because of that reason?
- I don't I have to stop going through life with this idea that I should be putting someone on a pedestal.
- And whether you're using the way that we physically appear to put us down or to to put us on a pedestal, it's not appreciated.
- And when I would put a woman on a pedestal, I would feel that rejection again, you know, and I would not be able to talk to him.
- To kind of like put somebody way up on a pedestal and then tear them down, way down, way, way lower than they than they deserved, you know?
- When you put someone on a pedestal that they're better than you and you put these thoughts at if I did this right it could have been perfect.
- That's not what a lot of men are putting on a pedestal in regards to.
- And then the last one real quick is putting him on a pedestal.
- And it's it's become like this, this thing now to that we put on a pedestal.
Examples
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I mean, men are always putting us on a pedestal, expecting us to be something that we're not.
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Your whole life, you put her on a pedestal.
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It's really difficult because you do, you do put these people on a pedestal.
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I put you on a pedestal.
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"I know how it feels to be put on a pedestal and then brought down.
Blog text (15) -
At the same time, we, as a society, choose to put athletes on a pedestal.
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Why do you feel the need to put Hillary on a pedestal?
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People with a fixed mindset said their ideal soulmate would put them on a pedestal, make them feel perfect, and worship them.
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The classic love bomber puts you on a pedestal, knocks you down, and catches you.
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Many fans tend to put on a pedestal their favorite celebrities, believing they can do no wrong.
Synonyms
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3.4
To admire someone very much, often without thinking about their faults
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5.2
To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are
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4.9
Admire someone very much, often ignoring their faults
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4.6
To have respect for someone because of what they do
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6.5
Admire someone so much that you think they are perfect
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9.6
To think someone is perfect and cannot do wrong
To admire someone too much and treat them as perfect
To admire someone too much and ignore their faults
To admire someone too much and ignore their faults
To make someone seem like a god or without faults
Admire someone so much that you think they are perfect
To give a lot of praise, often more than needed
Antonyms
How Admiring
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to admire someone greatly' is directly inferable from combining 'put' + 'on' (place) with 'pedestal' (an elevated base), so the image of elevating someone to a higher status is transparently conveyed. This spatial-elevation metaphor is common cross-linguistically and follows regular compositional logic, making it accessible to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
The idiom put on a pedestal comes from the simple image of a statue placed on a tall pedestal, where the statue stands above everyone and is shown as more important. So, to put someone on a pedestal means to admire them greatly or treat them as 'perfect'.