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Cleaners Lose Lot Money Unfair Robbed Cheated Company

Phrase/Idiom take someone to the cleaners
Definition If someone is taken to the cleaners, they lose a lot of money in an unfair way, usually by being robbed or cheated.
Example When the company went bankrupt, she realized that she had been taken to the cleaners.

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