good-cop-bad-cop

Example Sentences

• "When he and his partner play good-cop-bad-cop, I bet I know who plays bad-cop."
• "They played "good-cop-bad-cop", they skipped questions and repeated questions, they went over the same ground three and four times, they pointed out natural causes for things he had witnessed, they asked what his real motives were to get his adrenalin pumping, they called him "imaginative", and calmed him down when he took offense, and at the end of two hours both they and Prophet were exhausted."
• "He played good-cop-bad-cop all by himself. First he was tender and considerate, worrying that she might have cut her hand, and the next instant he was berating her for a supposedly faulty memory where her own marriage was concerned."
• "You just have to be really strong and if the actor starts to bitch, you say, ‘Okay’ and you play good-cop-bad-cop, and you bring in the other head producer."
• "He singlehandedly played good-cop-bad-cop, refusing to budge while expressing sympathy for their plight."
• "Truitt could tell by reading his deputy’s body language that if they were to play good-cop-bad-cop, he would have to take the role of the good cop himself."