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词组 get the shaft
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get the shaft
American, informal if someone gets the shaft, they are not treated in a fair way.
The tax system is all wrong - the rich just get richer and it's the poor who get the shaft.
idiomget the shaft AmEAmE(also get shafted)to be treated unfairly:Maguire found that in order to give Afro-American students a chance, kids of Irish, Italian, Polish and Greek ancestry were getting the shaft when they applied to the university.I work, and I pay taxes, and I sent my kids to fight in a war. So why are people like me still getting shafted by the government?

get the shaft

To be exploited, cheated, or taken advantage of; to be treated unfairly. Whenever a crappy job comes around, I'm always the one who gets the shaft. Once again it's folks living in rural communities who end up getting the shaft.

get the shaft

Sl. to be cheated; to be taken advantage of; to be mistreated. (See also someone the shaft">give someone the shaft.) Why do I get the shaft when I did nothing wrong?
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