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单词 bleed someone white
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bleed someone white


Extort money, take someone's last penny. For example, That contractor would have bled the department white, but fortunately he was apprehended in time. Presumably this term alludes to losing so much blood that one turns pale (and perhaps also to the idea that money is the life blood of commerce). [First half of 1900s]

Words nearby bleed someone white

bleeder's disease, bleeder tile, bleeding, bleeding edge, bleeding heart, bleed someone white, bleed valve, bleep, bleeper, bleeping, blellum
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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