put pen to paper
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English[edit]
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Verb[edit]
put pen to paper (third-person singular simple present puts pen to paper, present participle putting pen to paper, simple past and past participle put pen to paper)
- (intransitive) To write something (especially using pen and ink).
- (intransitive) To begin to write something.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to write
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to begin to write
Further reading[edit]
- “put set pen to paper” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- “put set pen to paper” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.
- “put pen to paper” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- “put pen to paper”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “put pen to paper” in the Collins English Dictionary
- “put pen to paper” (US) / “put pen to paper” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.