put something behind one

English

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Verb

put something behind one (third-person singular simple present puts something behind one, present participle putting something behind one, simple past and past participle put something behind one)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To recover from an unpleasant or traumatic experience; to overcome a negative feeling, especially anger, resentment, or grief.

   The losing candidate was just glad to put it behind him after months on the campaign trail.

   • 2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Owen Hargreaves put his injury problems behind him with a fabulous goal on his debut as Manchester City beat holders Birmingham City to reach the fourth round of the Carling Cup.

Synonyms

• get over
• move on