take for a ride
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take for a ride
verb takes for a ride · taking for a ride · took for a ride · taken for a ride
- To deceive someone. Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride
- To drive (a person) to a remote location in order to murder them. 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.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, a, ride.
