put down as

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put down as (third-person singular simple present puts down as, present participle putting down as, simple past and past participle put down as)

  1. (idiomatic) To assume the particularity of someone's character based on very little information.
    I put him down as ignorant, but then discovered he is, in fact, a university professor!