Synonyms of takes to the cleaners

takes to the cleaners

phrase

present tense third-person singular of take to the cleaners

as in suckers

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

That car salesman took us to the cleaners with this lemon.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suckers
• sticks
• victimizes
• shorts
• cheats
• squeezes
• does
• hustles
• stings
• plucks
• shakes down
• rips off
• beats
• tricks
• bleeds
• chouses
• screws
• clips
• takes for a ride
• exploits
• cozens
• stiffs
• defrauds
• fiddles
• flimflams
• does in
• shortchanges
• cons
• mulcts
• skins
• gyps
• chisels
• thimblerigs
• swindles
• reams
• skunks
• fleeces
• rooks
• gaffs
• sells a bill of goods to
• euchres
• nobbles
• diddles
• hoses
• bilks
• extorts
• wrenches
• fools
• deceives
• milks
• soaks
• betrays
• gouges
• nicks
• overcharges
• dupes
• ropes (in)
• gulls
• bitches
• wrests
• wrings
• fast-talks
• double-crosses
• bamboozles