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Usage examples of put-up job.

He knew it was a put-up job that Manfred had organized to save himself from sitting through a second hour of a hard seat and bad music.

You see, if the spider lets the fly walk out too easily, the fly might suspect it was a put-up job.

The public was smart enough to recognize a put-up job when it saw one, and standing on principle over the issue would simply get them evicted from the Republic as well.

As a last hope Jane Finn was to be allowed to escape--and the escape must be managed so that she harbours no suspicions of its being a put-up job.

It proves, also, that Abraham Lincoln was a man of fine feelings, and that, if the occurrence was a put-up job on the lady's part, it accomplished the purpose all the same.

It was a complete fraud, a put-up job by the Knights to discredit their husbands and allow the prince to take over.

But she didn't like the idea that perhaps she was the victim of a put-up job.

But that would have been a real reason, not the put-up job Dornberger was forcing on him.

You were forced to open the door because of the girl-it could all have been a put-up job.

For one thing, and particularly in light of the whole Parnell mess, it would look like another put-up job, especially to anyone who’.

For one thing, and particularly in light of the whole Parnell mess, it would look like another put-up job, especially to anyone who's already inclined to support her.