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
And his replies are so swift and sure, so full of extraneous details that come gushing with almaniacal glee that the show's producers feared at first that the show would seem a put-up job.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Don’t you know it’s blackmail and a put-up job to ruin me?” roared the timber baron.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
