Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 221. The idiom today is to take someone to the cleaners. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone takes another person to the cleaners, he or she takes someone's money or possessions in a dishonest or unfair way or at least that's the way we feel about it. It probably alludes to the idea that you know , like you yes when you take your clothes to the cleaners they got to clean out your pockets. So they probably are taking all your money or possessions. If you left anything there you shouldn't. All right but anyway let's let's continue here. Example number one. His wife hired a good lawyer or his ex-wife hired a good lawyer and she really took him to the cleaners. She got the house the car and most of the valuables , and he still has to pay her alimony. So this would be a typical way that we might say it . You often hear this like with divorces. Maybe if the wife gets a good lawyer, she took the husband to the cleaners. So he really you know, he didn't end up with much. She was lucky she got most of it. Okay. Let's look at number two. That con artist took this company to the cleaners. He pretended to fall and injure himself in one of their stores and sued them for a fortune. So of course , this is illegal. This goes under you know, insurance fraud, basically, but it does happen. Sometimes we hear about this and you know, so he pretended to get hurt. And he took the company took the cleaners. He sued them for a lot of money. All right. So this is typically the way we hear it used. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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