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The phrase "suck dry" is a valid phrase in English. It generally means to remove all of something, usually in a figurative sense. For example, "The heat of summer sucked the pool dry."
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The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919 but not finalised until 1921, was designed by the allies to suck dry what was left of Germany.
Milk sprayed on to mildewed courgette leaves, coffee grounds to keep the slugs away, hoverflies to eat aphids, and plants that like to suck dry your houseflies.
He and four coauthors describe how liberal blue states suck dry conservative red states.
In a coordinated attack spanning 130 ATMs in 49 cities, a group of hackers managed to suck dry bank accounts totalling over $9 million, according to an admission by RBS Worldpay, a payment processing company that oversaw the accounts.
It finds intolerable the very idea that government exists to serve the powerful, exalt the mighty and suck dry the substance of those without privilege or access.
How many batteries did we suck dry playing Sonic, Madden and Road Rash on the bus or in the car, or in the dark when we were supposed to be sleeping?
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Like, just sucked dry.
We cannot be sucked dry.
("I was sucked dry," he told the Telegraph).
"I have been sucked dry by grief," she said.
"As the war wore on, the American League was sucked dry of talent by the military draft.
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