Figure
Set up
Set up verb - To arrange something in a certain spot or position.
Both terms in one sentence
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Scientists figure out the rules the universe set up, and lawyers try to figure out the rules that we humans set up.
Source: Loads and Loads of Rules -
Set up similarly, but subverted in Duck Dodgers, where Dodgers dresses a woman to fool some guards but they both think "she" is ugly and quite easily figure him out to be a guy.
Source: Attractive Bent-Gender -
Kudzu Plot: You spend more than half the movie trying to figure out who's trying to set up who, while trying not to be outwitted by the other parties.
Source: Film / Body of Lies
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