put-up job
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Noun
[edit]put-up job (plural put-up jobs)
- (idiomatic) An attempt to trick, deceive, or con someone.
- Hyponyms: frameup, setup
- It seemed to be a really good opportunity, but it turned out to be nothing but a put-up job.
- 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 62:
- “The whole thing's a low put-up job on our noble credulity.”
- 1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XVIII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 185:
- "Ah, so you damn rat, this is a put-up job eh?"