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The phrase "about to rip off" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something is on the verge of being stolen or taken away, often in a colloquial or informal context.
Example: "He was about to rip off the price tag before realizing it was a mistake."
Alternatives: "on the verge of stealing" or "about to take away."
Idiom
A rip-off or To rip-off.
A rip-off is something that costs more than it should.
Exact(2)
"Apple is about to rip off every one of its customers.
I'm about to rip off its roots and eat it alive".
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"If you're ever going to re-brand the team — and we all thought we needed to after about the 2007 season — you had to rip off the Band-Aid and come back with something big," Greg Cotton, the team's chief operating officer, said.
That's the thing about consumer technology: it's easy to rip off, hard to sell to strategic acquirers and monetization is often a mystery.
Majdi's eyes are twitching from side to side and he's gripping the steering wheel like he's about to rip it off and use it to beat someone to death.
Majdi's eyes are twitching from side to side, and he's gripping the steering wheel like he's about to rip it off and use it to beat someone to death.
Don't wait till she is about to rip your head off or it will happen when you least expect or WANT IT...Like in the middle of the playoff game you have been wanting to watch.
Respondents "cannot distinguish if the clown is as happy as he seems to be, or if he's about to rip somebody's face off".
It's, hands down, the best thing about the Seaworld rip off located in Niagara Falls.
And before Gingrich starts ranting about illegal immigrants ripping off and bankrupting the food stamp program, he might want to check his facts.
Hours after a London executive published an extraordinary resignation letter in the New York Times, saying its bankers routinely brag about "ripping off" clients, Goldman was in full-scale damage limitation mode, trying to reassure its clients that the portrait of a "toxic" internal culture was a fiction peddled by a disgruntled employee.
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