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Jenne Phuong
2022-10-04 06:10
Milk (someone or something) dry informal verb phrase
The verbs "bleed" and "suck" can be substituted for the verb "milk".
To take or use up everything from a person, thing, or situation as possible
She has milked her rich and old husband dry.
The manager is trying to milk his employees dry.
Everyone says she's trying to milk me dry, but I don't believe it.
To use all of someone or something that is available in order to achieve something
To take and use all of someone or something, but give nothing in return
The verb "milk" should be conjugated according to its tense.
The verb "milk", which originally meant "to get milk from a cow", was changed to "get money from someone" in the early sixteenth century. In succeeding centuries, it was expanded to include stealing messages from a telephone and telegraph cable, obtaining the most laughter or applause from the audience, and other seemingly unrelated endeavors. Today it can be found in phrases like “His thesis on Wordsworth’s mentions of flowers milks the subject dry.”
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