TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS - - "Relieved of one's money or aspirations, perhaps by flimflam; easily bested. The advent of professional dry cleaners not so many decades ago brought about this modernization of the earlier phrase 'cleaned out.' From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballentine Books, New York 1985).
3/27/2009
TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS - - "Relieved of one's money or aspirations, perhaps by flimflam; easily bested. The advent of professional dry cleaners not so many decades ago brought about this modernization of the earlier phrase 'cleaned out.' From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballentine Books, New York 1985).
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