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.