- fit someone up Brit.
- fit someone up Brit.informalincriminate someone by falsifying evidence against them.→ fit
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fit someone up Brit.
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fit someone up — (Brit. informal) FALSELY INCRIMINATE; informal frame, set up. → fit * * * Brit., informal incriminate someone by falsifying evidence against them … Useful english dictionary
fit — fit1 adjective (fitter, fittest) 1》 of a suitable quality, standard, or type. ↘having the requisite qualities or skills to do something competently. ↘socially acceptable: a fit subject on which to correspond. 2》 in good health, especially … English new terms dictionary
fit out — PHRASAL VERB If you fit someone or something out, or you fit them up, you provide them with equipment and other things that they need. [V n P for n] We helped to fit him out for a trip to the Baltic... [V n P with … English dictionary
fit — Ⅰ. fit [1] ► ADJECTIVE (fitter, fittest) 1) of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose. 2) in good health, especially through regular physical exercise. 3) (fit to do) informal on the point of doing. 4) … English terms dictionary
fit out — Ⅰ. ► fit out (or up) provide with necessary items. Main Entry: ↑fit Ⅱ. ► fit up Brit. informal incriminate (someone) by falsifying evidence against them. Main Entry: ↑fit … English terms dictionary
fit up — Ⅰ. ► fit out (or up) provide with necessary items. Main Entry: ↑fit Ⅱ. ► fit up Brit. informal incriminate (someone) by falsifying evidence against them. Main Entry: ↑fit … English terms dictionary
fit — I [[t]fɪ̱t[/t]] BEING RIGHT OR GOING IN THE RIGHT PLACE ♦♦ fits, fitting, fitted (In American English the form fit is used in the present tense and sometimes also as the past tense and past participle of the verb.) 1) VERB If something fits, it… … English dictionary
stitch someone up — (Brit. informal) FALSELY INCRIMINATE, get someone into trouble; informal frame, set up; Brit. informal fit someone up, drop someone in it. → stitch … Useful english dictionary
fit up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If someone fits another person up, they try to make it seem that that person is responsible for a crime. [BRIT, INFORMAL] [V n P] Mr Stone said inmates who had given evidence were trying to fit him up ... [V P n (not pron)] There… … English dictionary
set someone up — 1 his father set him up in business: ESTABLISH, finance, fund, back, subsidize. 2 (informal) she set him up for Newley s murder: FALSELY INCRIMINATE, frame, entrap; Brit … Useful english dictionary
