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put-up job en · NOUN
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(idiomatic) An attempt to trick, deceive, or con someone.
Edgar (J. Edgar Hoover), you set me up — a put-up job! I will fucking crush you!
2018 October 5, Wesley Strick, “The New Colossus”, in The Man in the High Castle (TV series), season 3, episode 5, spoken by George Lincoln Rockwell (David Furr):"Ah, so you damn rat, this is a put-up job eh?"
1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XVIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 185:“The whole thing's a low put-up job on our noble credulity.”
1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62:It seemed to be a really good opportunity, but it turned out to be nothing but a put-up job.
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