set him up in English

trapped him, played a trick on him

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1. Someone set him up.

2. His father intended to set him up as a greengrocer.

3. After he left college, his father set him up in the family business.

4. They set him up in a teaching post here and paid him a retainer to recruit likely students as Junior officer trainees.

5. Boozier was an aspiring chef and alumnus of Green Opportunities' Kitchen Ready program, which had set him up with a job as a cook at an eminent Asheville hotel

6. Although the Brenda–Beaver liaison is well known to their London friends, Tony remains uxorious and oblivious; attempts by Brenda and her friends to set him up with a mistress are absurdly unsuccessful.

7. As for the Rhinoceros, in token of their grateful adherence, they had him killed and stuffed directly, and then set him up outside the door of their father's house as a Diaphanous Doorscraper.