take for a ride

verb

Definitions

  1. To deceive someone.

    • Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride
    • This image of Gerrard as Liverpool's grand protector chimes with everything we know about him and his passion for his club. From day one he was watching out for the bluffers and chancers who were seeking to take Liverpool for a ride.
    • Well, is it art? Is Mr. Cattelan taking us for a ride? Did you have to be there? Isn’t this banana just a banana, and not a wry commentary on male sexuality, genetic monocultures, or Central American geopolitics?
  2. 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.
    • There had been previous killings, but Brent was the first to be taken for a ride in true gangster style. Police said his shooting had the earmarks of a professional job.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, a, ride.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA