set someone up—
1. (coll.) make a person feel better:
- You need a holiday to set you up again after all that hard work.
2. help a person start as someone in business, etc.:
- His father lent him some money to set him up as a shoemaker.
3. (often Passive) deliberately cause a person to receive blame, punishment, etc.:
- I’m not to blame really; I’ve been set up.
Note: The expression is not antonymous in meaning to the phrase set someone down—allow a person to leave a vehicle:
- By the time a truck driver set me down among dark green hills, it was already time to start looking for a place to lay over.
upset someone—distress a person:
- Deceased appeared very irritable upon the morning in question, but witness knew of nothing to upset him.