milk/bleed/suck (someone or something) dry

idiom

informal

: to take or use up everything from (someone or something)

He married her for her money and then bled her dry.

She milked the system dry.

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His son stayed behind to fight the flames, though their communal water system, which fed 33 homes on the road, was about to bleed dry. —

Lizzie Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Sep. 2020

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