to bleed sb dry or white

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

• bleed — [bliːd] verb bled PTandPP [bled] 1. [intransitive] to lose money: • Its consumer electronics division continued to bleed, with an operating loss of $100 million. 2. [transitive] to make someone pay an unreasonable amount of money: bleed somebody… …   Financial and business terms

• bleed — [bli:d] v past tense and past participle bled [bled] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(blood)¦ 2¦(money)¦ 3¦(air/liquid)¦ 4¦(colour)¦ 5 bleed red ink ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ [: Old English; Origin: bledan, from blod; BLOOD] 1.) ¦(BLOOD)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• White Zinfandel — White Zinfandel, often abbreviated as White Zin, is an off dry to sweet, pink colored rosé wine. White Zinfandel is made from the Zinfandel wine grape, which would otherwise produce a bold and spicy red wine. As such, it is not a grape variety… …   Wikipedia

• 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 past tense and past participle bled — verb 1 BLOOD a) (I) to lose blood, especially because of an injury: Your nose is bleeding. | bleed profusely (=bleed a lot): Marc lay on the ground, bleeding profusely. b) (T) to take some blood from someone s body in order to treat a disease 2… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• dry — Synonyms and related words: Rabelaisian, Saharan, Spartan, WCTU, acarpous, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acescent, acetose, acid, acidulous, air dry, anhydrate, anhydrous, antisaloon, apathetic, arid, ascetic, athirst, austere, bake, baked, bald,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• bleed — [[t]bli͟ːd[/t]] bleeds, bleeding, bled 1) VERB When you bleed, you lose blood from your body as a result of injury or illness. His head had struck the sink and was bleeding... He was bleeding profusely... [V to n] She s going to bleed to death!… …   English dictionary

• bleed — Synonyms and related words: abridge, abuse, ache, agonize, anguish, be sorry for, bereave, bleed for, bleed white, bloody, broach, brood over, clip, commiserate, compassionate, condole with, cup, curtail, cut off, decant, denude, deplume, deprive …   Moby Thesaurus

• bleed — [[t]blid[/t]] v. bled(bled), bleed•ing, 1) pat to lose, discharge, or exude blood 2) bot (of a plant) to exude sap, resin, etc., from a wound 3) tex a) to run or become diffused: The colors bled when the dress was washed[/ex] b) tex to lose or… …   From formal English to slang