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Comment: Taken for a ride.


IT'S it's  

1. Contraction of it is.

2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its.


it's it is or it has
it's be ~have
 hard to find any sympathy sympathy /sym·pa·thy/ (sim´pah-the)
1. compassion for another person's thoughts, feelings, and experiences.

2. an influence produced in any organ by disease, disorder, or other change in another part.

3.
 for Dublin's cabbies.

They are certainly not the most co-operative people in the world.

Just try getting one to go somewhere that doesn't does·n't  

Contraction of does not.
 suit him.

Nor is it easy to find a happy one.

They are always either too busy or they haven't have·n't  

Contraction of have not.


haven't have not
haven't have
 enough work.

So their campaign to stick 20 per cent on their fares is not a popular crusade.

Prosperity has brought them more tourists to overcharge.

It has filled pubs with drinkers who need lifts home.

What more do they want?
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Aug 19, 2000
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