It was an absolutely perfect set-up for instant, flaming, total war to be begun at any instant.

Dark, deserted, the bank building was indeed the perfect set-up.

By then, the Rangers were down a goal and stretching themselves: a perfect set-up for the league's ultimate opportunist.

Harry's thrust of the poker had partly spoiled a perfect set-up for a murder.

But it was a perfect set-up for Imlay to have done it.

I have arranged a perfect set-up; but you must work for me.

Never before had The Shadow arranged such a perfect set-up, only to have it ruined by the mistake of someone else.

Max had proved to be the laid-back jokester of the family and she'd just walked him into the perfect set-up.

"It seems like a perfect set-up without his pres- ence."

That's why nobody will take chances, unless they've got a perfect set-up.