From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishput somebody up to something phrasal verbPERSUADEto encourage someone to do something stupid or dangerous ‘Did Shirley put you up to this?’ ‘No, it was my own idea.’ → put→ See Verb table
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put up to • Jessica cut in, Nobody put me up to anything.• Later the students would guess that the Nationalists had put them up to it. 