stitch (someone) up

stitch (someone) up
vb
British
a.
to concoct false evidence against someone, to 'frame'. A piece of underworld and police jargon from the 1950s which penetrated popular speech in the 1980s.
► 'Openshaw, 41, allegedly said on his ar-rest: "I'm being stitched up". The trial goes on.' (Court report, Daily Mirror, 14 July 1989)
b.
to outmanoeuvre comprehensively, defeat by devious means, render help-less. This extension of the previous sense of the phrase became a vogue term of the early 1980s.
► 'Leched over by managers, stitched up by agents, girls in the music biz have tra-ditionally paid a high price for suc-cumbing to the lure of lurex.' (Ms London magazine, 4 September 1989)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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