good cop–bad cop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Even above the racket of the wheels, he could hear them sniggering at his fantasies of stardom, playing good cop–bad cop with his head."
- "“My parents played ‘good cop–bad cop’ for three months when we were planning our wedding. One week my father would be upset that I was marrying a Jew and the next week it would be my mother,” said a Methodist woman whose mother had been trying to orchestrate her wedding from a distance of two thousand miles."
- "The PCF and CGT seemed to play good cop–bad cop with with^([sic]) the government—if the PCF’s coalition partners balked at the Communists’ policies, mass action by the CGT remained a trump card."
- "They played good cop–bad cop on him and it worked like a charm, Acuna threatened to throw the book at Archie. Rothmiller said maybe they could go easy if he would help them."
- "If Bill Clinton uses Jimmy Carter to play good cop–bad cop with assorted dictators and manages to minimize bloodshed by doing so, what’s the problem with that?"
- "In regard to the nuclear proliferation problem, South Korea and the United States should work together, playing ‘good cop–bad cop’ roles."