taking for a ride

Verb

take for a ride (third-person singular simple present takes for a ride, present participle taking for a ride, simple past took for a ride, past participle taken for a ride)

1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To deceive someone.
   • Two timing woman / Trying to take me for a ride1974, David Coverdale, Ritchie Blackmore, “Lady Double Dealer”, in Stormbringer, performed by Deep Purple

   Synonyms:

   take for a drive

2. (euphemistic, idiomatic, informal, transitive) 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.1936, The Elevator Constructor, volume 33, page 38
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, for, a, ride.