It was a put-up job. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a put-up job. From Dictionary.com.
Well, this is the time to put-up or shut-up. chuck. From Wordnik.com. [Villaraigosa won't run for governor] Reference
The ASBL challenges the USHCC to put-up or shut-up. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Gunn: U.S. Hispanic Chamber Challenged on Its Small Business Credentials by ASBL] Reference
I tell you what it is -- this thing is a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
This whole thread is starting to look like a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [Clyburn Refuses To Take Ceremonial Whip From Blunt] Reference
But the rationale for war, it may have been a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 13, 2003] Reference
He should be encouraged to put-up or shut-up, not attacked. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brownback Opposes Escalation, But Attacks Senate Resolution Against Bush Plan] Reference
It's put-up or shut-up time against the McNabb-less Eagles. From Wordnik.com. [Survive and Advance: Week 13] Reference
Everything is a sort of game, a put-up job, to you Mexicans. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
How long did Josif take to put-up these immensive structures?. From Wordnik.com. [Gothic Stalinist Soviet Skyscrapers] Reference
Rayne #13 might have it right: âI think this is a put-up. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Why All the Fuss?] Reference
It doesn't matter how many Democrats sign these put-up letters. From Wordnik.com. [Art Brodsky: Summer Rerun At The FCC: AT&T Tries for Scream 2 (Broadband)] Reference
'A put-up job from start to finish, of course, 'Audley had said. From Wordnik.com. [The Alamut Ambush]
Was this, she wondered suddenly, just a put-up part of the game?. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
Her long dress and her put-up hair had deceived him in the moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
On the other hand, the T3 tax really is a put-up or shut-up challenge. From Wordnik.com. [The T3 Tax « Climate Audit] Reference
If so, it would be one of the most harmful put-up jobs in media history. From Wordnik.com. [Al-Durra Case Revisited] Reference
I can tell by the way he acts if this recording business was a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo Roost] Reference
He says he's the victim of a put-up job by Saddam loyalists among the Kurds. From Wordnik.com. [IRAQ IN THE BALANCE] Reference
"Do you mean to say, you young monkey," he said, "that this is a put-up job?". From Wordnik.com. [Different Girls] Reference
"Why, to make it look like a put-up job of ours, of course," said her brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Imperialist] Reference
"But in that case, why did he go ahead and agree to this put-up job of yours?". From Wordnik.com. [Knocked for a Loop]
EOH: A number of critics are convinced that you are a GOP plant, a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Ofari Hutchinson: My Interview With S.C. Democratic US Senate Candidate Alvin Greene] Reference
A long time it was before we settled upon any regular put-up bit of work to do. From Wordnik.com. [Robbery Under Arms] Reference
His piece makes it look even more like a put-up job by the Guardian and the BBC. From Wordnik.com. [OPERATION - GET COULSON, part two!] Reference
This was said to have been a put-up job, as the man was secured to get a license. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
(People who were displaced from their homes were put-up in tents near this house). From Wordnik.com. [The Flood « Peace Corps South Africa] Reference
The case "is almost certainly a put-up job by the United States," Cartwright said. From Wordnik.com. [WikiLeaks founder granted bail but stays in jail] Reference
Everyone started making remarks that got under my skin, for I knew it was a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 3: Across the Atlantic] Reference
I could see then that it was a put-up job, this getting me to go up to my sister's house. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Ranney] Reference
I have added some articles which clearly show that the superdollars business is a put-up job. From Wordnik.com. [Don't mention Korea] Reference
JohnA writes: "His piece makes it look even more like a put-up job by the Guardian and the BBC.". From Wordnik.com. [OPERATION - GET COULSON, part two!] Reference
But the intensity of their possessiveness is no put-up job, and is similar to what I encounter all over the ward. From Wordnik.com. [FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER] Reference
He had been intensely interested in the Arab's tale, and the thought that it was a put-up job did not appeal to him in the least. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Every new technology goes through a phase, where the sheer newness makes early adopters like myself put-up with all sorts of bugs. From Wordnik.com. [Skype, VoIP Honeymoon over?] Reference
He was quite serious at playing his cards not just close to his vest, but playing a bet-the-house, put-up or shut-up game of poker. From Wordnik.com. [UFies.org: May 2007 Archives] Reference
I wasn't happy about Bill Clinton lying in a deposition, even if it was a put-up job, but even that was not as cynical or premeditated. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
MADISON - It's put-up or shut-up time for Wisconsin. From Wordnik.com. [The Oshkosh Northwestern Latest Headlines]
The actor has put-up a gym for himself on his terrace flat and is busy sweating there. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
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