a put-up job

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1. It had been the signature of the anonymous letter Bartocci had received suggesting that the kidnapping of Ruggiero Miletti was a put-up job. BNC

2. But The Sun thought that the meeting was a bogus one, if it was held at all, further alleging that this clandestine organisation (which said that it had met in secrecy because it feared Hooligan reprisals) was a put-up job by someone in the pay of The Daily Telegraph . BNC

3. At the time he seemed honest enough, but later, after I`d given him the money, I realized it was a put-up job. CIDoI

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