stitch sb up
UK slang— phrasal verb with stitch uk/stɪtʃ/us/stɪtʃ/verb
to deliberately make someone look guilty of doing something that they did not do:
He claims he was stitched up by the police.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Blaming & accusing
- a bad workman blames his tools idiom
- accusation
- accusatory
- accusing
- allegation
- attribute
- attribution
- carry
- chalk sth up
- charge
- contributory negligence
- face the music idiom
- finger-pointing
- frame
- hang
- haul sb up
- indictment
- opprobrium
- recrimination
- thank sb for sth idiom
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