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suck dry

verb

Definitions

  1. To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, dry.

    • The swimmers wore pantyhose to stop the leeches in the lake from sucking them dry.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA