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Is the sentence correct?

 
 
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Reply Thu 9 Jul, 2009 06:01 pm
contrex wrote:

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He just told me that the sentence is ambiguous.


Yes. In casual conversational BrE certainly, to be "taken for a ride" can mean to be tricked or defrauded, and a native English speaker might well avoid the phrase for that reason.
I think your explanation makes sense.
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