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
It had all the feel of a put-up job.
From Time Magazine Archive
For who knows but his visit may be a put-up job and that all he wants is to pick a quarrel as a signal for a lot of other rowdies to break in?”
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
