try it on | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic,colloquial)Totestsomeone to see how much badbehaviourthey willtolerate; to try todeceivesomeone to see howgulliblethey are.1847January –1848July,William Makepeace Thackeray,Vanity Fair[…], London:Bradbury and Evans[…], published1848,→OCLC:“Come, come,” said James, putting his hand to his nose and winking at his cousin with a pair of vinous eyes, “no jokes, old boy; notrying it onon me. You want to trot me out, but it’s no go. In vino veritas, old boy[…]”1908,E. M. Forster,A Room with a View‎[1], London: Edward Arnold, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 95:“We must not submit,” said Mr. Eager. “I knew he wastrying it on. He is treating us as if we were a party of Cook’s tourists.”1937,Robert Byron,The Road to Oxiana‎[2], London: Macmillan,Part 1, p. 35:The Arabs hate the French more than they hate us. Having more reason to do so, they are more polite; in other words, they have learnt not totry it on, when they meet a European.1954,William Golding,Lord of the Flies:“I’m warning you. I’m going to get angry. D’you see? You’re not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don’ttry it on, my poor misguided boy, or else—”New York: Putnam, 1964, Chapter 8, p. 133,[3]; (idiomatic,colloquial)To try to start asexualrelationship(withsomeone).1926,Nevil Shute, chapter 1, inMarazan‎[4], London: Cassell:“[…]Tell her I’ll be outside the house from eleven o’clock onwards. Tell her to leave the morning-room window open and to switch on the light in her bedroom when it’s safe for me to come in.”“She won’t believe me if I go and tell her that,” I said. “No girl would. She’d think I wastrying it on.”1969,Hortense Calisher, chapter 11, inThe New Yorkers‎[5], Boston: Little, Brown, page319:No, this was only a young mantrying it onwith a girl, in that light, undergraduate way in which this kind could snap back.

Examples:

EN: Shall I really try it on?
ES: ¿De verdad quieres que me lo pruebe?
EN: Oh-ha-ha-ha, I'll try it on, but I won't take it.
ES: Lo probaré, pero no voy a llevármelo.
EN: Here, try it on.
ES: Pruébalo.
EN: - Well, try it on.
ES: - Pues prueba con él.
EN: You'll have to try it on somebody else, Eddie.
ES: Inténtalo con otro, Eddie.
EN: Go on and try it on!
ES: ¡Ve a probártelo!
EN: Yes, I'd like to try it on, please
ES: Sí, me gustaría probármelo, por favor.
EN: Just for fun, try it on, will you, Frank?
ES: Por curiosidad, pruébatelo, Frank.
EN: I gotta try it on, see what it looks like.
ES: Debo probármelo para ver cómo luce.
EN: Look at this cap, try it on.
ES: Mira esta gorra, pruébatela.
EN: Now go try it on.
ES: Pruébeselo.
EN: Come on, try it on.
ES: Vamos, pruébatelo.
EN: But I want to try it on first.
ES: Pero antes quiero probarlo.
EN: Come on, I'll try it on.
ES: Vamos, me lo probaré.
EN: I don't know, I'll have to try it on no Grandma, that's my underwear
ES: No sé, voy a tener que probármelo. ¡No abuela, es mi ropa!

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