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Idioms and Phrases
Cheat, deceive, or defraud someone, as in They screwed me out of my overtime pay again . It is often rendered in the passive, be or get screwed , meaning “be cheated, deceived, or defrauded.” For example, We're getting screwed by this new income tax regulation . [ Slang ; c. 1900]Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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