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Definition of Put out feelers
1. Verb. Make some preliminary investigations or test the waters.
Definition of Put out feelers
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To explore or watch for; ask around; investigate. ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Put Out Feelers
Literary usage of Put out feelers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Out of Their Own Mouths: Utterances of German Rulers, Statesmen, Savants by William Roscoe Thayer (1917)
"Or perhaps in that semi-official form, which Bismarck found so desirable, in
order to put out feelers and, in case of necessity, thunder out a denial? ..."
2. Out of Their Own Mouths: Utterances of German Rulers, Statesmen, Savants by William Roscoe Thayer (1917)
"Or perhaps in that semi-official form, which Bismarck found so desirable, in
order to put out feelers and, in case of necessity, thunder out a denial? ..."
3. The history of France, tr. by R. Black. (Vol. 6-8 ed. by madame de Witt). by François Pierre G. Guizot (1873)
"He had put out feelers for it in the direction of Germany, and the emperor,
Frederic III., had promised it to him together with that of vicar-general of the ..."
4. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783-1919 by A. W. Ward, George Peabody Gooch (1922)
"But his mission falls in a period during which the British Cabinet, conscious of
its isolation, had put out feelers among the Northern Courts and at Vienna. ..."
5. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Robert Black (1884)
"He had put out feelers for it in the direction of Germany, and the emperor,
Frederic III., had promised it to him together with that of vicar-general of the ..."
6. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"After each military success she put out feelers for a separate peace on one side
and another, and conducted a propaganda in the ..."
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