Brays Video Collection – English Phrasal Verbs, Rip off
Script (guión): To rip off. Phrasal verbs, to ‘rip off’. To be cheated, to be ripped off, to be cheated.
For example, you go to a pop concert. You've heard about this great group and it was perhaps a group that was singing 50 or 40 years ago. You have great memories of how he used to sing. Somebody like Bruce Springsteen, sorry Bruce. You go to a Bruce Springsteen concert, you pay 100 pounds. When he comes on the stage his voice is pretty terrible. His voice is awful so you have been ripped off.
It's also a noun, a rip-off. So to be ripped off and a rip-off - to be cheated.



