plumber up

Example Sentences

• "When a pilot no longer heeds the demands of vanity or misplaced pride; when he attempts not to salvage a plumbered-up approach with a desperate bit of squirming and jockeying, but rather shrugs it off as a well-deserved object lesson in complacency and tools around the circuit again—then he is a real pro."
• "Even bananas are in trouble, though not from the weather. The maritime strikers have “plumbered up” the shipping situation to the extent that the demand far exceeds the supplies."
• "I do not think we should pull any punches in laying out the failures of Lodge to utilize the Station properly, the damage done by “blowing” covert assets…and the fact that MACV plumbered up a lot of very good work on the part of the station as a result of [redacted]…"
• "The Palace of Justice! This was where the cabo had told me I was to receive a fair trial and be shot immediately. The jota boys had certainly plumbered things up for me. It looked like I had come to some sort of an end, even if it hadn’t been a perfect day."
• "....... did anyone actually move to the edge of their seat or think there was a chance in hell he'd score ? I was typing a response to an ss post, and didn't even bother to look until the last second to see how he'd plumber it up."
• "When Charlie White was the Ops boss at SubPac, he met with my PCO class (he'd had a great tour as CO WAHOO). He said this about commanding a submarine: "Command is easy ... if you don't plumber it up ... so don't plumber it up." […] Rather than over-analyze this, let's just admit that this guy 'plumbered it up.'"