run dry Idiome
run dry|dry|run
v. phr. To dry up; lose the water content.
After many years of use, our well ran dry.
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well's run dry, the A supply or resource has been exhausted, as in
There's no more principal left; the well's run dry, or
There's not another novel in her; the well's run dry. This expression likens an underground water source to other plentiful sources. Benjamin Franklin used it in
Poor Richard's Almanack (1757).
run dry
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stop bartering water; be all acclimated so that none is left: The wells in best villages in the arena accept run dry. ♢ Vaccine food started to run dry as the flu beginning accomplished catching proportions.Learn more: dry, run