take sb to the cleaner's
informalto get a lot of money from someone, usually by cheating them:
Paul was really taken to the cleaner's on that deal.
to defeat someone by a very large amount:
In the second half, United were really taken to the cleaner's, and they finally lost the match 6–1.
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Cheating & tricking
- a numbers game idiom
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- fleece
- gag
- honeyfuggle
- hoodwink
- impersonate
- jape
- jiggery-pokery
- poison
- ruse
- scam
- scammer
- screw
- sell sb a bill of goods idiom
- shaft
- wool
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