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The routine was that a husband would be “caught” in a compromising position with some woman, either his actual girlfriend or a woman who’d been paid to go along with the put-up job.

Texas, for instance, breezily dismissed Cox’s claim as a put-up job, suggesting she could simply terminate her pregnancy in sunny Florida, and described the tragic diagnosis of trisomy 18 as something no different from what happens to “the countless women who give birth every day.”

Mr McLachlan continued: "Been put-up to being here?"

The 2022 season may be pivotal for the Commanders: a new quarterback era, the owner still being investigated by Congress, the coach looking at a put-up or shut-up season.

I don’t trust Russia, which invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, and so I immediately guessed that each of these cases was some sort of anti-American put-up job.