cooked-up

He cooked up a plan that would not only lead to the recovery of his bike within 48 hours - but also to the arrest and criminal charge of the man thought to have stolen it.

Conservatives have also mastered the intricacies of circuit-shopping, the dark art of placing the nuttiest legal theories cooked up in Federalist Society hothouses before the most rabidly ideological judges.

In the early days of the American labor movement, company bosses, alarmed at a surge of employees demanding higher wages and safer working conditions, cooked up a plan to hamstring their opposition.

It will be interesting to see else the Trump campaign has cooked up and choreographed when all those eyes are upon Fiserv Forum.

Whoever cooked up this scheme to beat Trump in the courts rather than the campaign trail will go down as one of the dumbest political strategists in history.