Cook up
Cook up verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.
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Scheme
Scheme verb - To engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends.
Usage example: the town inspector had schemed to overlook the contractor's code violations in exchange for a substantial bribe
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Both terms in one sentence
- Or, alternatively, come for Yuno, stay to see what other crazy, over-the-top and complicated scheme will the Diary Holders cook up to kill each other.
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Zany Scheme: All the housewives like to cook up one quite often — with varying degrees of success...
Source: Series / Desperate Housewives - They suspect Frank might have given it to him, so they cook up a Zany Scheme to get some of his urine to test, a Zany Scheme to keep him from having sex with Hot Lips, and one to keep him away from patients.
Source: Zany Scheme
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