take to the cleaners

Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.

I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.

Wycliffe translates the Vulgate: “And it as a modir onourid schal meete hym, and as a womman fro virgynyte schal take him.”