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单词 sell someone down the river
释义

sell someone down the river

informal Betray someone, especially so as to benefit oneself: he said they were management lackeys who had been sold down the river by Bunker...
  • Staff feel they have been sold down the river by the Government.
  • And they say they feel they have been sold down the river by their union leaders, who last week accepted a pay settlement involving changes in shift patterns and working practices.
  • He has sold us down the river and made our democracy a joke.

Synonyms

cheat, trick, swindle, defraud, dupe, hoodwink;
double-cross, betray, deceive, sell out, stab in the back;
exploit, take advantage of
informal do, con, take for a ride, sell, diddle, bamboozle, finagle, bilk, rip off, fleece
Earlier referring to the sale of a troublesome slave to the owner of a sugar-cane plantation on the lower Mississippi, where conditions were relatively harsher
See parent entry: river
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