takes to the cleaners
phrase
as in suckers
to rob by the use of trickery or threats That car salesman took us to the cleaners with this lemon. Synonyms & Similar Words
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- suckers
- cheats
- sticks
- does
- screws
- squeezes
- hustles
- rips off
- cozens
- beats
- shakes down
- chouses
- takes for a ride
- plucks
- clips
- flimflams
- shorts
- bleeds
- defrauds
- does in
- stings
- shortchanges
- victimizes
- thimblerigs
- exploits
- mulcts
- stiffs
- cons
- gyps
- skins
- sells a bill of goods to
- chisels
- fiddles
- swindles
- skunks
- reams
- nobbles
- euchres
- fleeces
- gaffs
- rooks
- bilks
- betrays
- hoses
- tricks
- diddles
- extorts
- deceives
- fools
- soaks
- nicks
- gouges
- wrenches
- dupes
- overcharges
- fast-talks
- milks
- bitches
- gulls
- wrests
- wrings
- ropes (in)
- bamboozles
- double-crosses
