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take for a ride en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To deceive someone.
   • Well, is it art? Is Mr. Cattelan taking us for a ride? Did you have to be there? Isn’t this banana just a banana, and not a wry commentary on male sexuality, genetic monocultures, or Central American geopolitics? 2019 December 8, Jason Farago, “A (Grudging) Defense of the $120,000 Banana”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • This image of Gerrard as Liverpool's grand protector chimes with everything we know about him and his passion for his club. From day one he was watching out for the bluffers and chancers who were seeking to take Liverpool for a ride. 2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport:
   • Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride 1974, David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore, “Lady Double Dealer”, in Stormbringer, performed by Deep Purple:
2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, informal, transitive) To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them.
   • There had been previous killings, but Brent was the first to be taken for a ride in true gangster style. Police said his shooting had the earmarks of a professional job. 1997, Ian Macdonald, Betty O'Keefe, The Mulligan Affair: Top Cop on the Take, page 37:
   • Yet he was kidnapped and "taken for a ride" in the fashion which Al Capone did so much to popularize in Chicago; and one story has it that he was shot only because the rope with which he was to have been hanged did not arrive in time. 1936, The Elevator Constructor, volume 33, page 38:
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, a, ride.

Forms

Synonyms

take for a drive

Translations (18)

pl wziąć na bajer (to deceive someone) · es vender la burra (to deceive someone) · ru объеба́ть (to deceive someone) · lv appist (to deceive someone) · da tage røven på (to deceive someone) · fr mener en bateau (to deceive someone) · gd thoir dhan mhòinteach (to deceive someone) · lv apkrāpt (to deceive someone) · fi huijata (to deceive someone) · es vender la moto (to deceive someone) · pl brać na bajer (to deceive someone) · lv apkāst (to deceive someone) · de aufs Kreuz legen (to deceive someone) · fi vedättää (to deceive someone) · ru раскрути́ть (to deceive someone) · de für dumm verkaufen (to deceive someone) · de verschaukeln (to deceive someone) · cmn 哄騙 /哄骗 (to deceive someone)