diddle something out of someone
- diddle something out of someone
diddle something out of someone
Sl. to get something from someone by deception. •
We diddled about forty bucks out of the old lady who runs the candy shop.
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They diddled Larry's last dime out of him.
Dictionary of American idioms.
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