suck dry

verb — 2 senses

suck dry

verb

1

Idiomatic, Informal To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.

2

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

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

Related terms: bleed dry

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