Sentences with phrase «ripped it off»

«Grabbing the thrusting arm, a roaring Chewbacca twisted and ripped it off at the shoulder, throwing the dismembered limb clear across the room.

As a result, they may be more likely to get ripped off.

So, although I think the $ 49 warranty is (for most buyers) a rip off, it's a small rip off.

Lately, I've found that even the mission - critical business ideas that make it through my first set of filters have to address another elephant in the room: the question of whether this startup is building something that's going to become a free - standing and independent business or whether it's developing a great feature that is going to be swallowed up, ripped off, or rolled over by one of the big guys in their space in the near future.

«Consumers should not be ripped off for surfing the net abroad.

The replica caused controversy because natives of the original Hallstatt didn't know that their historic buildings and streets were being ripped off.

Of course by the next quarter if I felt ripped off I could advocate for seven percent or maybe ops requirements needed to be upped to 20 percent for one quarter.

When you're charging $ 14, and the place across the street is making one just as good for $ 5, it can't help but make me feel I'm being ripped off.

So workers could be pushed into unsafe conditions, their wages ripped off, their pensions dismissed, etc., all without fuss — as long as the Party bigshots received a share of the profits.

He stopped production in 1967, and hot rod shops ripped off Shelby's design for 30 years while he worked with Ford and Chrysler.

They're just good at ripping them off.»

An introduction to negotiating with people who are about to rip you off: To be taught by a repentant used - car salesman.

If you've recently bought a computer with USB - C ports and would rather rip off that band - aid now, I have good news.

Thanks to a «front - end flaw» in Flexcoin's software code, hackers ripped off all 896 of the small trading post's modest supply of bitcoins.

The customer is confused, goes to Amazon, sees how much cheaper the product is there and feels ripped off.

The piece of the plane that was found, called a «flaperon,» was most likely «broken off by the engine pod ripping off as it was dragged through the water on the initial impact,» Tracy Lamb, an aviation safety consultant and former Boeing 737 pilot, told Bloomberg.

He is the former commissioner of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and author of «Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.»

Angry union protestors ripped off two Air France managers» shirts after Air France announced the proposed layoffs of about 3000 workers.

«Value» is a negative term in my book, usually a sign that you are getting ripped off.

And, if worst comes to worst, the immigrations officer can rip off the Post-it and stamp wherever they please.

Maybe Tesla's invention won't convince many middle class Americans to rip off their roofs and install new ones.

If we ignore this information, and if we don't try to act on it — so our constituents can afford the medications that they need and so that the taxpayers aren't being ripped off — then we become a part of the problem.

He is the former U.S. Trading Commissioner and author of «Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off American.»

It's that professionals feel ripped off when those «exposure bucks» aren't delivered.

This confusion was leading to many companies being ripped off for PR services and I wanted to change that.

U.S. retailers get ripped off to the tune of about $ 1.5 billion per year due to credit card fraud, says Dennis Behrman, a research analyst with Financial Insights, a Framingham, Massachusetts, research firm.

«If you're successful enough, we get to rip you off.»

Chanos, known for his big bet against Enron before it collapsed in 2001, said Thursday his firm has been concerned about the «rent seekers» in the U.S. health - care system who he alleges are ripping off the system.

The article recommends using Skype or Google voice and avoiding paying for any metered phone service: «If you're paying anything more than a penny or two a minute for calls, except for certain international routes, you're getting ripped off.»

I've worked with a company that had such a convoluted profit - sharing system that neither the employees nor their managers understood how it worked, and most everyone felt ripped off.

Always take care of the legal stuff first so other people can't rip you off.

Rips it off the roof again.

He is the former U.S. Trading Commissioner and author of «Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.»

Hamon isn't ripping off the phone company, just bypassing it.

This stands in contrast to some of the German luxury makers, which have been accused of ripping off and overcharging consumers.

What made these Joes think they could protect what may be the most easily ripped off intellectual property since the smiley face?

The technology giant will ask a federal judge this week to stop sales of a Samsung tablet for allegedly ripping off the iPad.

Wolfe died in 1997, but the man in control of his estate says Led Zeppelin ripped off the opening chords to Spirit's song «Taurus,» which Wolfe wrote.

He is also the author of «Ponzimonium: How Scam Artists Are Ripping Off America.»

What does it mean if for $ 3,000 one customer feels ripped off and another rewarded?

«Can they trust you that you won't rip them off?

People of a certain disposition will put it down to oil companies ripping off consumers, but we're not yet at that point.

Now that I think of it, the satellite radio in my new Lexus F - Sport GS350 must have been tuned to that»80s party mainstay 1st Wave when I quit the parking lot of Toyota Canada HQ, ripped off homeward down the highway and found myself lost in thoughts of that glorious decade.

Simply a Rip Off and many small businesses agree with me!

The website makes car - buying haggle - free, with prices below market value, so customers can rest easy knowing they aren't getting ripped off.

Team Synapse began communicating with Microsoft, but Zuckerberg says they backed out when they began to suspect that the multi-billion dollar corporation was going to rip them off.

So your argument is that because interest rates have been kept artificially low (effectively ripping everyone off with a manipulated money supply that's becoming more worthless by the day) that paying 6 % for a mortgage (which at one point was low) is getting ripped off?

Explains Clancy: «If someone rips you off or someone stiffs you on 50 kilos, [do] you go out and do an act of violence against that guy and bring a bunch of heat on you and your organization?

«Mick Mulvaney is letting predatory payday lenders off the hook while they rip off American consumers,» Diane Standaert, executive vice president for the consumer watchdog group, said in a statement.

To avoid getting ripped off, investors should understand everything they can about the market and industry best practices.