Meaning of good-cop/bad-cop | Babel Free

Examples

“Imagine the grownups play good-cop/bad-cop with real guns & mean it.”

“Mr. K always smiles, and Ms. V always frowns. Are they playing good-cop/bad-cop?”

“My guess was that Parnell was playing good-cop/bad-cop, and was being the bad cop. Tony Mack, being an ex-cop himself, caught on and played along.”

“Apparently Ben was playing good-cop/bad-cop all by himself.”

“If she was annoyed that they had tricked her into driving Logan back to Little Rock from the rally, then she wouldn’t be thrilled about her two brothers playing good-cop/bad-cop to find out the guy’s intentions.”

“It had gone like that all night, until well after midnight, the boys playing good-cop/bad-cop or using whatever means they had to put out the fires.”

““Listen, gentlemen. I have watched a lot of cop-based TV shows in my day and I know that when one policeman is nice to you and the other one doesn’t look so nice that’s called ‘good-cop/bad-cop.’ Now, there’s no reason to play good-cop/bad-cop because I will tell you everything you want to know down to the last detail. All I ask is that you believe me.””

“Raphael smiled. This was his captive and the pair of us were playing good-cop/bad-cop. Well, maybe bad-cop/bad-cop.”

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