Idiom
take someone to the cleaner'stake (someone) to the cleaner's
1.
to get a lot of money from someone, usually by cheating them.
He got into a game of poker with two professional gamblers and, of course, they took him to the cleaner's.
2.
to defeat someone by a very large amount.
They don't like playing us because we took them to the cleaner's last year and the year before.