bleed someone dry

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• bleed someone dry — bleed (someone) dry to take someone s money until most or all of it has gone. Repayments on the new furniture were bleeding me dry …   New idioms dictionary

• bleed someone dry — (or white) drain someone of all money or resources the railroads claimed that personnel costs were bleeding them dry …   Useful english dictionary

• bleed someone dry — bleed (someone/something) dry to use up everything someone or something has available. The city is losing money at a rate that eventually will bleed it dry. I m worried that the medical bills will bleed my parents dry. Etymology: based on the… …   New idioms dictionary

• bleed someone dry — Go to bleed someone white …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• bleed someone dry — informal drain of money or resources. → bleed …   English new terms dictionary

• bleed something dry — bleed (someone/something) dry to use up everything someone or something has available. The city is losing money at a rate that eventually will bleed it dry. I m worried that the medical bills will bleed my parents dry. Etymology: based on the… …   New idioms dictionary

• bleed someone white — AND bleed someone dry tv. to take all of someone’s money; to extort money from someone. (See also bleed.) □ The creeps tried to bleed me white. □ Frank got some picture of Fred and Paul together and tried to bleed both of them dry …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• bleed — [ blid ] (past tense and past participle bled [ bled ] ) verb * ▸ 1 when blood flows out ▸ 2 when color spreads ▸ 3 make someone pay money ▸ 4 take liquid/gas from something ▸ 5 take blood from someone 1. ) intransitive to have blood flowing from …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• bleed dry — bleed (someone) dry to take someone s money until most or all of it has gone. Repayments on the new furniture were bleeding me dry …   New idioms dictionary

• bleed dry — If you bleed someone dry, you extract all their available money from them …   The small dictionary of idiomes

• bleed */ — UK [bliːd] / US [blɪd] verb Word forms bleed : present tense I/you/we/they bleed he/she/it bleeds present participle bleeding past tense bled UK [bled] / US past participle bled 1) [intransitive] to have blood flowing from your body, for example… …   English dictionary