- bleed sb dry
- bleed sb/sth dry► DISAPPROVING to take all or most of the money of a person, organization, country, etc.: »
Unfair trade bleeds countries dry through repayments of national debts.
Main Entry: ↑bleed
Financial and business terms. 2012.
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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 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 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 somebody dry — bleed sb ˈdry idiom (disapproving) to take away all sb s money • The big corporations are bleeding some of these small countries dry. Main entry: ↑bleedidiom … Useful english dictionary
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bleed sth dry — bleed sb/sth dry ► DISAPPROVING to take all or most of the money of a person, organization, country, etc.: »Unfair trade bleeds countries dry through repayments of national debts. Main Entry: ↑bleed … Financial and business terms
bleed someone dry — informal drain of money or resources. → bleed … English new terms 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
