She put on a lot of weight for The Dirty Picture

Vidya Balan put on a lot of weight to prepare herself for her role in The Dirty Picture

Keep learning new phrases everyday and keep improving your spoken English skills.

The phrase we discuss in this post is, “Put on weight”.

It is a fairly straightforward phrase. When you say someone has put on weight you basically means you have gained weight, have become fat. It is a common phrase, more so in conversational English. Let’s look at some examples:

1. Aishwarya Rai put on a lot of weight post pregnancy and the media went crazy about it. Ideally, they should have realized that despite being a Miss World and a glamorous cine star, she is a human being and has a right to her private life.
2. You have put on a lot of weight of late. You ought to begin doing exercises regularly.
3. If you put on a lot of weight, you’d invite a lot of diseases. Being obese is the first step towards several ailments.

Thus, put on weight simply means become fat. You can use it in formal as well as informal settings – you can say it to your boss as well as amongst your college friends.

Lets see some more examples:

1. Ever since her boyfriend told her that she has put on weight, she has gone into severe depression. She is even considering going for liposuction.
2. She was a pretty actress in her prime. However, she just couldn’t handle stardom. Her drinking problem and wild lifestyle led her to put on a lot of weight. Slowly, the movie offers dried down and she was reduced to pale shadow of her former self.
3. Whenever she comes home from hostel, she puts on a lot of weight. It’s as if home cooked food has some magical effect on her. Within weeks of foing back to the hostel, she sheds all those extra kilos.
4. Vidya Balan gained a lot of weight for The Dirty Picture and then had to lose it for subsequent films.