Would you let me know what "being played for suckers" means?
Middle-class Chinese consumers call themselves "leeks," the popular green vegetable used in a Chinese cuisine, to express their fears about the economy or financial issues online.
It's a self-deprecating term implying they are being played for suckers, just faceless vegetables harvested by big companies and the government, especially amid the escalating US-China trade war and slowing economy.
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To be played for a sucker is to be made a fool of.
sucker (WR dictionary): a person easily cheated or deceived: That sucker wound up spending thousands on a roof he didn't need.
An earlier thread: I've been playing you for a sucker
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