cuffing and stuffing
v.— «We’re a white-collar unit—paper crimes, fraud, embezzlement. The old cuffing-and-stuffing routine doesn’t come to us very much.» —“Club owner’s sense of something off-key led to the arrest of rock-star imposter” by Howard Sinker Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) May 3, 1991. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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