请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 take someone to the cleaners
释义

take someone to the cleaners

informal
1Take all someone’s money or possessions in a dishonest or unfair way: he had a lot of dishonest partners who really took him to the cleaners...
  • It is perhaps an unintended irony that on the same page that we find ads for cleaners, we find ads for the guys who will take you to the cleaners if you let them.
  • Her drinking accelerated and her accountant took her to the cleaners.
  • A bunch of slick, elitist, wingnut hucksters are taking them to the cleaners.
1.1Inflict a crushing defeat on someone: his team were taken to the cleaners by the Australians in the first Test...
  • If one team gets on top of their game and the other team isn't, then they are quite capable of taking them to the cleaners - and that's what happened to us.
  • I think that they reckoned we had something of a soft underbelly up front but we took them to the cleaners.
  • From there until the interval they took Laois to the cleaners.
See parent entry: cleaner
随便看

 

英语词典包含243303条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/1/11 11:30:18