get taken in
English
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Verb
get taken in
- (idiomatic) To be fooled; to fall for.
- I wonder how many people will get taken in by their addition of a fancy-looking front panel to a crummy device.
- (idiomatic) To be unofficially fostered.
- When her mother died, she got taken in by the next-door neighbour.