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Trump up   /trəmp əp/   Listen
verb
Trump  v. t.  
1.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive. (Obs.) "To trick or trump mankind."
2.
To impose unfairly; to palm off. "Authors have been trumped upon us."
To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.





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"Trump up" Quotes from Famous Books



... of your class trump up these stories!—Listen, you are the twenty-second person, and we have only reached the tenth of the month, who has made an attempt to be introduced to the favorite, for the purpose of squeezing a few pistoles from her. Take yourself ...
— The Resources of Quinola • Honore de Balzac
... little too intrusively through all the characters we assume. We have so much familiarity with one another's realities, that we cannot remove ourselves, at pleasure, into an imaginary sphere. Let us have no more pictures to-night; but, to make you what poor amends I can, how would you like to have me trump up a wild, spectral legend, on the ...
— The Blithedale Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... the boy hesitated, looking straight at his questioner. How could he tell this dreadful man the truth? and it did not occur to him to trump up a story or put him off with a half-truth, as some children might ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur
... I must; but how shall I contrive it?—Oh! a lucky Thought seizes me. Some Ladies after they have refus'd prodigious Settlements, tell 'em but a Secret, and they'll grant you any thing. I'll trump up a delicate Lie to tickle her Curiosity and serve the Collonel.——Well, Madam, since you are resolv'd to cross me, I must apply my self to those more kind tho' less agreeable, tho' had you giv'n me but the least Encouragement to have shown ...
— The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) • Thomas Baker
... to begin at two o'clock, and on the morning of that day I took the somewhat tyrannical precaution of having the more dangerous of our own malefactors, and as many of the foreign thieves as I could trump up charges against, laid by the heels, yet I knew very well it was not these rascals I had most to fear, but the suave, well-groomed gentlemen, amply supplied with unimpeachable credentials, stopping at our fine hotels and living like princes. Many of these ...
— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr


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