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

Judging by the celerity with which the Montenegrin troops were despatched to the frontier I incline to think it was "a put up job."

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

Of course we all did doubt his word, and were well satisfied that it was a put up job, to gain the reward.

From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Siringo, Chas. A.

Of course it was a put up job, and I have my suspicions of who did it.

From The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders by Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

Your pupil has a very good disposition; but tell me is not the letter from Miss Lucy's mother a put up job?

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques