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rob
verb
to steal UK
Unconventional passive usage.- I remember the European cup final in Paris in 1981, all the stuff that was robbed! [...] By Monday they wouldn’t let you into any shops because everything had been robbed! — John Robb, The Nineties, p. 30, 1999
▶ rob the cradle
to be romantically involved with a young person US- She even gets to robbing the cradle, a little boy or a little girl. — Robert Deane Pharr, Giveadamn Brown, p. 120, 1978
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, Spring 1983
- His little prepubescent trophies gleamed on the shelf, reminding me that I was robbing the old cradle. — Pamela Des Barres, I’m With the Band, p. 197, 1988
▶ we wuz robbed; we woz robbed
used as an excuse for losing US
As a jocular exclamation this is a fine example of “many a true word spoken in jest”; widely used (with serious intent) as an indignant cliché. Apparently coined in 1932 by boxing manager Joe Jacobs when his client, Max Schmeling, lost the world heavyweight title as the result of a controversial split-decision.- [T]he George Bush “we-was-robbed" Republican wing, which has never been able to forgive Clinton for beating Bush[.] — Andrew Stephen, New Statesman, 21 August 1988
- [H]owever much the conservatives might cry “we woz robbed” and complain[.] — David Starkey, Elizabeth, p. 289, 2000
- Fortunately, we wuz robbed [England lost a football match], and by Friday morning all union flags and Burberry caps are hastily stuffed away. — The Guardian, p. 16, 28 June 2004
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