pick up what someone is putting down
To understand, pay attention to, or learn from what someone says or does.
Moran, picking up what Jennings is putting down, agrees.
noun
Instigation or incitement; enticement.
...and then if there be a putting in fear alſo, the clergy is ouſted in all the caſes mentiond in this ſtatute.
The action or result of the verb put.
noun
The action of the verb to putt.
A variety of golf in which balls are tapped into holes over short distances using a putter.