suck dry
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]suck dry (third-person singular simple present sucks dry, present participle sucking dry, simple past and past participle sucked dry)
- (informal, idiomatic, transitive) To exhaust all the resources of someone or something.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, dry.
- The swimmers wore pantyhose to stop the leeches in the lake from sucking them dry.