get the shaft
get the shaft
To be exploited, cheated, or taken advantage of; to be treated unfairly. Whenever a crappy job comes around, I'm always the one who gets the shaft. Once again it's folks living in rural communities who end up getting the shaft. Why did I get the shaft all of a sudden? I've been a loyal employee for 10 years!
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get the shaft
Sl. to be cheated; to be taken advantage of; to be mistreated. (See also
give someone the shaft.)
Why do I get the shaft when I did nothing wrong? McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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He or she will have the tools necessary to assist in making sure you don't '
get the shaft' when making this important purchase decision.***The Royal Golf Academy's Junior Golf Programme gets underway next month with a new six-week series of one-hour classes aimed at creating long-term athletic development and golf improvement.
When you
get the shafts and 45 [degrees] fittings in the correct alignment dry (without glue), carefully mark each with a sharp knife--scribing both the shaft and the stub on the other end of the 45 [degrees] fitting, and the fittings themselves.
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