1
general::
Phrase(s): trumped up
1. heavily promoted; overly praised. (Hyphenated before nominal.) • I don’t care for trumpedup stuff like that movie. • That movie was so trumped up. I expected to see something much better than it turned out to be. 2. made-up; contrived. • They put Larry in the slammer on some trumped-up charge. • It was a silly, trumped-up idea. Just forget it.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs