Bleed someone dry

让某人流血干

Learning English Conversations

2018-05-15

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An expression for a financial injury
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  • The English we speak from BBCLearningEnglish.com hello, I'm Fei Fei, and this is the English We Speak.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • Oh, Neil.

  • Are you in pain?

  • Yeah, I cut my hand yesterday.

  • Blood everywhere.

  • Look at this cut.

  • Yuck.

  • That's horrible.

  • So tell me how it happened.

  • Well, my shower has been leaking for ages.

  • I'm not good at fixing things, so I got this plumber in to fix it.

  • I found his details on the Internet.

  • Dodgy plumbers got a leak.

  • We'll make you pay for it.

  • Hmm.

  • That doesn't sound like a very reputable plumber.

  • Well, it wasn't.