frame up
Upper Intermediate (B2) informal
Make an innocent person look guilty by planting false evidence — or build the frame of a structure.
"He spent ten years in prison before it was proven he had been framed up."
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Game Maker's Toolkit · 12:15
perhaps shifting the frame up with each jump
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UFC FIGHT PASS · 23:56
Trying to frame up a choke here is Nasser.
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UFC FIGHT PASS · 56:28
He was trying to frame up a mounted triangle.
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Bankless · 6:00
to frame up the entire we're about to have.
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Austin John Plays · 22:42
But like that's also just an empty frame up there.