mug (someone) off

mug (someone) off
vb
British
to make a fool of, take advantage of. An item of London working-class speech dating from the 1950s.
► 'She's taken the mickey and mugged me right off.' (Gangster Ronnie Kray, quoted in the Sun, 5 October 1993)

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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