| 单词 | to put up a job |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put up a job 10. transitive. Originally Criminals' slang. To collaborate or conspire with others to perpetrate (a robbery, deception, etc.); to plan in advance, prearrange, preconcert. Esp. in to put up a job. Cf. earlier put-up adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > steal [verb (transitive)] > plan a theft to put up1829 1829 Times 23 Sept. 3/4 Although nothing transpired to warrant her further detention, she is still suspected of having ‘put up’ the robbery. 1865 N.-Y. Times 5 Feb. 8/5 He resigns, asseverating, meantime, that his comrades have ‘put up a job’ to compass his expulsion from the department. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xiv. 251 He was convinced that the manager, in a spirit of mean revenge, had put up a job on him. 1942 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald-Amer. 4 Oct. 32/5 Were they putting up a job on Hitler, subjecting him to a blitz of nerves? 1965 P. Baker Wild Bunch at Robber's Roost viii. 102 Tom would go out of his way any day to ‘put up a job’ on someone. Sometimes the hoax was rather elaborate. < as lemmas |
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