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Meanings of put the bar in English

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Usage of put the bar in English
1
They picked him up to put the bar at the highest level.
The Guardian
2
He put the bar back across the door and went into the bedroom.
I Am Legend
3
We wanted to make characters look their best and put the bar very high.
The South African
4
He drew back and put the bar just behind him.
Six Feet Four
5
She put the bar back in its place.
Everychild / A Story Which The Old May Interpret to the Young an...
6
We kin lock this room-andput the bars ag'in the shutters.
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days
7
I can't see myself putting the bar out of business, Joe.
A Town like Alice
8
Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
9
Pardon me if I have put the bars in the wrong places, and whistle it better for yourself.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1
10
But Isaac, as full of mischief as Puck, put the bars up, so that she could not ride out.
Isaac T. Hopper: A True Life
11
She helped him lower the bars and drive the cow into the road, then put the bars in place again.
Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great Ci...
12
Put the bar back.
New National Fourth Reader
13
After all that has been done to help disabled people to live productive lives, we are putting the bar up again.
The Guardian
14
"Go and put the bar up yourself, then, can't you?"
Lady Audley's Secret
15
"Are they putting the bars up for me?"
A Patriotic Schoolgirl
16
"And as for me, I never had, and never shall have, any application: so pray put the bar out of your mind."
Tales and Novels — Volume 07 / Patronage [part 1]
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