put up a show

put up a show (third-person singular simple present puts up a show, present participle putting up a show, simple past and past participle put up a show)

1. (informal) To do something particularly well or particularly badly.

• “put up a good poor show” (US) / “put up a good poor show” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
• “put up a good poor etc show” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.