squeeze (one) dry Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

bone dry

very dry, as dry as an old bone Someone had drained the pool. It was bone dry.

dirty laundry

personal problems, mistakes, scandals I don't want the public to see my dirty laundry - my worst moves.

dry out

stop using alcohol, on the wagon She's drying out at a treatment centre. It's a four-week program.

dry run

complete rehearsal, walk through Let's do a dry run of our play so I can add the background music.

dry up

stop talking, be quiet I wish he'd dry up. He talks too much.

hang you out to dry

defeat you, convict you, throw the book at If you're caught shoplifting, they'll hang you out to dry.

high and dry

stranded, out of the current of events They left him high and dry when they moved the company to Europe.

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you do not appreciate some things until they go away or become extinct Now we have only memories of of our song birds. You don't miss the water till the well runs dry.

dry off

（cause to）become dry变干；弄干
Dry yourself off thoroughly after swimming，or you might catch cold．游泳之后要把身体擦干，否则可能感冒。

leave high and dry

Idiom(s): leave sb high and dry

Theme: ABANDONMENT

to leave someone unsupported and unable to maneuver; to leave someone helpless.(Informal.)
• All my workers quit and left me high and dry.
• All the children ran away and left Billy high and dry to take the blame for the broken window.

squeeze (one) dry

To use force or burden to accomplishment addition for as abundant money, information, manpower, etc., as addition has or is able to give. We were acquisitive to alpha our own business, but those accommodation sharks awkward us dry with crazily aerial absorption rates. Interrogators are planning to clasp the captured spy dry for all the advice he may accept about the enemy's plans.Learn more: dry, squeeze

ˌsqueeze somebody ˈdry

get as abundant money, information, etc. out of somebody as you can: The war, as able-bodied as the bread-and-butter sanctions imposed by adopted powers, accept awkward the abridgement dry.Learn more: dry, somebody, squeeze

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