to arrange a situation so that someone is blamed for something that they did not do
to arrange an agreement or deal
to join someone’s skin together after it has been cut
to repair a piece of cloth that has been torn by sewing it
Doctors stitched up the wound.
He’s stitched up a major deal with one of the European banks.
I think I’ve been stitched up.
You ought to stitch up that hole in your jeans.
stitches up
stitching up
stitched up
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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