ビジネス英語口語表現618： to bleed someone dry
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Today’s lesson of colloquial expression
618. to bleed someone dry 骨の髄までしゃぶる
- this means to extract all available money (or sometimes other resource) from someone
1. The company has a history of purchasing troubled firms, bleeding them dry, then forcing them to file for bankruptcy.
2. They’re both stressed because the house that they have been building since last May is bleeding them dry.
