incapacitated, stitch-up, someone/something is a gas

"I think it would have been a gas to review DRACULA when it came out in 1897. It’s so creepy...You never quite know what’s going on, but you know it isn’t good! I bet it knocked the Victorians flat." Mary Ann Gwinn on DRACULA, well-read Seattle, and more.

The attempted stitch-up has insulted Algerians, who have taken to the streets to voice their displeasure

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Algeria’s 82-year old president is incapacitated, but those around him want him back for a fifth term

someone/something is a gas - definition and synonyms

1. used for saying that someone/something makes you laugh a lot

    Synonyms and related words

   Funny, playful and humorous:funny, humorous, playful...

stitch-up

Dictionary result for stitch-up

noun

INFORMAL•BRITISH

1. an act of placing someone in a position in which they will be wrongly blamed for something, or of manipulating a situation to one's advantage.

   
   

   "he called the deal a stitch-up and said other companies were prevented from submitting higher bids"