good-cop

good-cop
1. a technique of interrogating suspects by a team of two police officers in which one officer is friendly and easygoing and the other is combative and easily angered.
2. any partnership where one person is friendly and relaxed and the other tense and difficult: »

“There are many partnerships in Hollywood where it's "good cop, bad cop,' ” says one studio executive (Spy Magazine).

good-cop, bad-cop «GUD kop BAD kop», adjective.
having both good and bad qualities or characteristics; opposite: »

It's a good-cop, bad-cop story of psychological subtlety (Time).


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