Learn English – Can we use “I can put you down..” when enlisting someone for an appointment

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For example, "I can put you down on a weekend tour."
As far as i know, when you use the phrase "Put you down" it's more of embarrassing someone or it could also mean that you want to kill that person.

What do you guys think?

Best Answer

It's fine.

Put down meaning kill is only ever used of an animal. It would not be understood in that sense in referring to a human, and if you found a way to force that meaning it would imply that you were regarding the person as an animal.

However there is another idiomatic meaning which could occur here, meaning "deprecate", or "diminish in status". I don't think anybody would read that meaning into this example though, unless there were some very unusual context.

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