take for a ride — 1. To play a trick on, dupe 2. To give (someone) a lift in a car with the object of murdering him or her in some remote place • • • Main Entry: ↑ride * * * take (someone) for a ride informal : to trick or fool (someone) especially in order to get … Useful english dictionary
take for a ride — take (someone) for a ride to cheat or deceive someone. I trusted him but he took me for a ride … New idioms dictionary
take for a ride — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To take out in a car intending to murder. * /The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride./ 2. To play a trick on; fool. * /The girls told Linda that a movie star was visiting the school, but she did… … Dictionary of American idioms
take for a ride — {v. phr.}, {slang} 1. To take out in a car intending to murder. * /The gang leader decided that the informer must be taken for a ride./ 2. To play a trick on; fool. * /The girls told Linda that a movie star was visiting the school, but she did… … Dictionary of American idioms
take for a ride — To take someone for a ride means to cheat or deceive them. I discovered he had charged me double the normal fee. He really took me for a ride! … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
take for a ride — 1) play a trick on or fool someone, take unfair advantage of someone I was taken for a ride by the used car salesman. The car that I bought is not very good. 2) (smb) cheat, swindle I think that they really took him for a ride when he was… … Idioms and examples
take for a ride — vp To drive someone away to kill. The capo ordered that the informer be taken for a ride. 1920s … Historical dictionary of American slang
take for a ride — to murder You bundled your victim into a car and killed him in a secluded place: ... taken for a ride. His death is attributed... (Lavine, 1930) Whence the current figurative meaning, to cheat … How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms
take for a ride — phrasal trick, cheat … New Collegiate Dictionary
Take for a ride — 1. kidnap and murder; 2. deceive and wilfully mislead … Dictionary of Australian slang
