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Done Up Like a Kipper

British idiom for one who has been totally bamboozled or taken advantage of by another.
Friend A: You just bought a gold watch from the street vendor for 100 quid?

Friend B: Yeah, mate, nice watch, isn't it?

Friend A: Eh, boy, you've been done up like a kipper!
by ripeness November 9, 2012
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done you like a kipper

Legend: "Want to buy a snowboard?"
Kipper: "sure, how much mate?"
Legend: "£300?"
Kipper: "Awesome"
Legend: "ahh only cost me £200, done you like a kipper!"
Kipper: "Where does that saying come from anyway?"
Legend: "From me when I sold you a snowboard!"
by theRealPhantomPleaseStandUp January 12, 2015
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Done Up Like a Kipper

Done up/stiched up like a kipper, surely takes it's meaning from the term red herring, which means to mislead or distract from an important issue, in a trickster style.

A Red Herring, in the literal sense, is a particularly strong smelling fish called a Kipper that has turned a red colour following the smoking process traditionally used to preserve it.
Therefore, to be done or stiched up like a kipper, clearly means to be duped or tricked by false information that was there for all to see, (in hindsight).
For example: when someone purchases an item they believe to be far superior to what it turns out to be, based on the persuasion and false information by the seller.

He was done up like a kipper when he bought that car. Meaning the car was a pile of s*** and he was tricked when he payed top dollar for it.
by squeeze163 August 4, 2016
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done up like a kipper

Blimey yes these drugs are working.
"He doesn't even remember being there..."
"Yeah, he was done up like a kipper"
by Earl Montmorency Grey July 18, 2005
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Stone Kippered

When one partakes in the smoking of cannabis and becomes stoned or monged to the extent of not being able to move. Once this state is achieved, the smoking session is concluded and usually followed by sleeping (also known as 'kipping'), hence, 'kippered.'
'Dude! I've had 10 bongs and 4 spliffs... I think i'm stone kippered! I'm going for a bit of a kip.'
by El Poogo February 12, 2009
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Kippered

Marc was kippered by Gary today
by BigBoy200 October 23, 2019
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Kippers

Slimy fish in Scotland and Boris Johnson wants to marry one because he brought one to a conference.
Hello kipper who do you simp for
Boris Johnson kippers kippers and e
by Summer-E January 14, 2021
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