P

Idioms beginning with "P"

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[put-up] {adj.}

Artificially arranged; plotted; phony; illegal.

The FBI was sure that the bank robbers worked together with an insider and that the whole affair was a put-up job.

[putdown] {n.}

An insult.

It was a nasty putdown when John called his sister a fat cow.

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