fit up

faire accuser à tort, piéger

Faire passer un innocent pour coupable d’un crime, souvent en fabriquant des preuves.

En anglais simple : Make an innocent person seem guilty of a crime, often by creating false evidence.

• Someone tried to fit me up.
• The police fitted him up by planting drugs in his car.
• She claims she was fitted up for the theft.

Comment l'utiliser : fit someone up for something (They fitted him up for a robbery he had not committed.)

Synonymes : frame, set up

Expressions courantes : fit someone up, fit up someone

équiper, aménager

Fournir à un lieu les meubles ou le matériel nécessaires à un usage précis.

En anglais simple : Provide a room or place with the furniture or equipment needed for a particular use.

• They fitted up a room for guests.
• She fitted the attic up with beds.
• We fitted up the shed as a small office.

Comment l'utiliser : fit something up with something (They fitted the room up with desks.); fit something up as something (He fitted the shed up as a workshop.)

Synonymes : equip, furnish, fit out

Expressions courantes : fit up something, fit something up