Thread: What does Stich-up mean, and how to translate into spanish?

I've heard this term in a TV Show called "Law & Order S.V.U."

I don't quite the grasp on it's meaning though at least to make it more simple and less legal so i can then translate it and explain it to someone who doesn't have legal terminology knowledge.

I found this on the web:
stitch-up noun [ C usually singular ]
uk ​ /ˈstɪtʃ.ʌp/ us ​ /ˈstɪtʃ.ʌp/ UK slang

"​a situation in which someone is deliberately made to look guilty of doing something that they did not do"

But on other ones it says something different, so I'm in a pickle of what really is.

Could you forum gurus give us a little help?

Literally "to stitch up" means to sew or join something together, with stitches, like one would get in surgery to close a wound.

In current slang it means to manufacture, or "plant" evidence, or create circumstances that would make someone other than the real perpetrator appear to be guilty of a crime. In the past this was called a "frame-up".

Sorry, I can't help with a Spanish translation. Es como un engaño.


Urban Dictionary: stitch up
https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...rm=stitch%20up

A set up, a trick. If someone stitches you up, then they're playing you for a fool. It's often used when framing someone for a crime.

Thanks Agustina

I like "tender una trampa" in that it is colloquial, as is "stitch up".

In the US, "to frame" someone is very widely accepted and understood, even in a court of law.

I can't say the same about "stitch up". I never heard the phrase (in that sense) until eidjit raised the question.

Do you think incriminar (falsamente) might be the best way to express it formally.

In a singular way, stitch up is like sewing something like:

stitch-up3-image.jpg

So I kind of understand the term, of planting something to "trap" or frame, or make someone take the blame for something.
The needle and the thread of a PLOT like wise. Right?