Do you agree that the expression—taken for a ride— fits the story ‘the hack driver’ like a glove?
Why/why not?
Answers
Take for a ride is an idiom that means to cheat or trick someone. In the chapter The Hack Driver tricked the lawyer. When the lawyer reached New Mullion Bill did not know the former was finding Lutkins. However, when the lawyer asked from him where he could find Lutkins, Bill made a plan to fool him. Later on when the lawyer confided to him he had come to serve summons on Lutkins, Bill decided to keep fooling him as long as he could.
The joke that he played on him was he did not let him know he himself was Lutkins. He even took the lawyer to his mother, but acted so smartly that the lawyer could not know his smartness.
Answer:
Yes, the expression 'taken for a ride' fits the story like a glove. As Oliver Lutkins posed to be a hack driver and kept his identity hidden from the narrator, the entire time, we can tell that Oliver had managed to gain his trust and was simply fooling around with him.