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单词 to play for a sucker
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to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)
c. transitive. Originally U.S. to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.): to deceive; to make a fool of; to con, cheat.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > duping, making a fool of > befool, dupe [phrase]
to put an ape in a person's hoodc1330
to glaze one's houvec1369
to cough (a person) a daw, fool, momea1529
to make a fool of1534
to give (any one) the bobc1540
to lead (a person) a dancea1545
to make (someone) an ass1548
to make (a person) an ox1566
to play bob-fool witha1592
to sell any one a bargain1598
to put the fool on1649
to make a monkey (out) of1767
to play (a person) for a sucker (also fool, etc.)1869
to string (someone) along1902
to swing it on or across1923
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xxvii. 294 Here, now, what do you mean by such conduct as this! Playing us for Chinamen because we are strangers and trying to learn!
1879 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Weekly Sentinel 23 July 5/2 He objects to being played for a sucker.
1892 R. Kipling Many Inventions (1893) 168 We've played 'em for suckers so often that when it comes to the golden truth—I'd like to try this on a London paper.
1898 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 8 Oct. I'm grinnin' at the handsome captain that got played for a fool by his wife.
1932 G. Lorimer & S. Lorimer Men are like Street Cars 130 Life is like that... Just about the time you think you got it all doped out, it turns around and plays you for a fish.
1967 New Yorker 18 Mar. 50 Wise up. They're playing you for a bunch of saps!
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green xxxiv. 166 She's a fraud... She's working for the Russians... She's played me for a sucker.
1992 New Republic 13 Apr. 16/1 The Americans increasingly feel they have been played for fools.
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