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E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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verb

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fit up

Part of SpeechverbUsed In Literature ↓

Conspire to incriminate falsely a presumably innocent person.

In a Sentence

The gun was placed in her car in an effort to fit her up.

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Poetry examples for fit up

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down to make the place broaden out, he said, and then had them

pine-panel the walls and fit up a special pine-panelled bar in the

shape of a horseshoe. I think the floor was pine-panelled, too.

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