英语词汇“sell someone down the river”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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

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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