put-up job
Example Sentences
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“This is not quite a put-up job, but nonetheless has been cobbled together so that Ghislaine is made to face the charges that Epstein never faced,’’ Ian Maxwell said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 26, 2021
That, and the fact that their prosecution was clearly a put-up job.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 25, 2013
Inevitably, some are saying that it is a put-up job, a PR stunt, but if so, someone should turf Dame Judi off whatever movie she's working on and hire Sarah Murdoch immediately instead.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2010
Some civilian scientists were flatly calling the project a put-up job.
From Time Magazine Archive
I felt pretty dum joyous myself, hiding in the brush with the lovely feeling of putting through a thoroughly successful put-up job added to the other.
From Plain Mary Smith A Romance of Red Saunders by Phillips, Henry Wallace
