suck (one) dry
suck (one) dry
1. To be physically, mentally, or emotionally exhausting. I'm sorry I'm not more responsive when I get home, it's just that work has been sucking me dry lately. I cried so much reading this novel that I felt like it had sucked me dry by the time I finished.
2. To deplete the entirety of one's resources. I don't have any more cash for you to spend at the arcade—you sucked me dry! The expensive and debt-riddled mobile phone company they acquired ended up sucking the business dry over the course of the next five years.
3. vulgar slang To perform fellatio on a man beyond the point of orgasm.
See also: dry, suck
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
suck someone dry
exhaust someone's physical, material, or emotional resources.See also: dry, someone, suck
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
- be not (oneself)
- be in it for
- be pressed for time
- a run on (something)
- away from it all
- be pushed for time
- address comments or remarks to
- address (one's) comments to (someone or something)
- a rush on (something)
- address (one's) remarks to (someone or something)