- 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. 2014.
bleed someone dry
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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 — 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
