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2021-08-14 11:08
Steal someone blind phrase
To illegally take everything one has through devious means. Sometimes said to imply that someone is asking an excessive amount of money for something.
It staggers somebody that their son stole them blind and then splurged out on video games.
What! You bought that shirt for 100 dollars. Dude, they must have stolen you blind. I've seen this shirt online, and it costs only 2 dollars.
An unscrupulous retailer who stole me blind yesterday has just got caught while fleeing the country.
1. To violently steal something from a place or a person, or take something as spoils, especially in wartime
2. The act of stealing something from a place or a person in a violent way, or taking something as spoils, especially in wartime
1. To take a lot of money from someone by deception or extortion
2. To charge someone too much money for something
Used to indicate the action of a base runner who sneak from one base to another in a baseball
To catch or to find someone who steals money from the place they work.
To catch someone stealing money from the workplace.
The verb "steal" must be conjugated according to its tense.
This phrase dates from the mid 1900s.
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