英语词汇“to milk dry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. intransitive. to milk dry: to drain completely of resources; to exploit exhaustively. Cf. sense 5a.

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1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/2 The great caldron that had been milked dry of its stores in the morning, now discharging its aqueous contents of a much-attenuated bouillon.

a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 258 After ten days the receipts began to drop... ‘About milked dry,’ said Burlingham at the late supper.

1912 J. Masefield Dauber iii. 25 They bleed him to the last half-crown for rent And this and that have almost milked him dry.

1985 T. Ali Nehrus & Gandhis v. 239 India had been milked dry during the ‘Great War’.

1993 Amer. Heritage Nov. 63/2 Thomason's next project was a biography of Jeb Stuart. He was at his best writing about military men, and he had milked the First World War dry.

单词	to milk dry
释义	> as lemmas to milk dry b. intransitive. to milk dry: to drain completely of resources; to exploit exhaustively. Cf. sense 5a. ΚΠ 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 102/2 The great caldron that had been milked dry of its stores in the morning, now discharging its aqueous contents of a much-attenuated bouillon. a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xv. 258 After ten days the receipts began to drop... ‘About milked dry,’ said Burlingham at the late supper. 1912 J. Masefield Dauber iii. 25 They bleed him to the last half-crown for rent And this and that have almost milked him dry. 1985 T. Ali Nehrus & Gandhis v. 239 India had been milked dry during the ‘Great War’. 1993 Amer. Heritage Nov. 63/2 Thomason's next project was a biography of Jeb Stuart. He was at his best writing about military men, and he had milked the First World War dry. extracted from milkv. < as lemmas
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