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take someone to the cleanersinformal 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.
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