take someone for a ride
Idioms-
Cheat or deliberately mislead someone, as in Car salesmen will take you for a ride in more ways than one! [ Colloquial ; c. 1920]
-
Murder someone, as in The gang threatened to take him for a ride . [ Slang ; 1920] Both usages allude to taking a person for an automobile ride.
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
