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suck someone/something dry
idiom(alsosuck the life out of someone/something)
to remove all useful, valuable qualities or possessions from a person, thing, or place: 把（某人或物）吸干;榨干（某人或物的）价值
That firm sucks its new programmers dry after five years and then fires them.过五年，等到那个公司吸干了新程序员的才华以后就会解雇他们。
Big cities suck the surrounding towns dry of local talent.大城市吸干了周围城市的本地人才。
Out-of-town stores have sucked the life out of the city centre.城外的店铺让市中心失去了活力。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Removing and extracting
ablate
abstract
abstraction
bowdlerization
bowdlerized
drain
extraction
extrication
filterable
filtration
fish something out
gouge something out
peel
root something out/up
rout someone out
scoop something out
slice
slice something off
snowploughing
wipe
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