pick up what someone is putting down (English, verb)
expansion: pick up what someone is putting down (third-person singular simple present picks up what someone is putting down, present participle picking up what someone is putting down, simple past and past participle picked up what someone was putting down)
Senses:
glosses: To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: picks up what someone is putting down
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: picking up what someone is putting down
tags: participle
present
form: picked up what someone was putting down
tags: participle
past
form: picked up what someone was putting down
tags: past
form: pick up what someone is laying down
tags: alternative
form: smell what someone is stepping in
tags: alternative