put-up job

Example Sentences

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She put up job listings Saturday for a number of positions in her council office and already has some of her senior staff members in place.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2022

People said the fight was a "fake," that it was a "put up job."

From Pushing to the Front by Marden, Orison Swett

The colonel and adjutant finally told me that it was a put up job on me, to make a little fun for the boys.

From How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion or, The Funny Experiences of a Raw Recruit - 1887 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

A fine piece of stage management, said his jealous rivals; others in the crowd were sure it was a put up job between Carpenter and Korwsky.

From They Call Me Carpenter by Sinclair, Upton

I think she may have suspected that it was a put up job.

From Saboteurs on the River by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)