put in the shade

== English == === Verb === put in the shade (third-person singular simple present puts in the shade, present participle putting in the shade, simple past and past participle put in the shade) (informal, transitive, figuratively) To outshine, to eclipse, to overshadow, to be better than. ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== throw shade ==== Further reading ==== “put in the shade”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. “put in the shade”, in Collins English Dictionary, 2011–present. “put someone something in the shade” (US) / “put someone something in the shade” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary. “put leave sb in the shade”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present. “put somebody something in the shade” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.