bleed dry

This year, I will learn how to slam fluids into vessels before they bleed dry, navigate plastic tubes into winding throats gasping for breath, assess a heart attack, sew wounds, think through homelessness, violence and need.

“CHA is using their deep pockets and intimidation maneuvers,” they wrote in a letter to a local newspaper, “to try to bleed dry the developers of the Belleayre Resort.”

Tuesday’s meetings come as time is fast running out to reach a financing agreement for Greece before the country’s banks—already closed for most business for the past week—bleed dry of cash, threatening to plunge Greece’s battered economy into even-deeper meltdown.

And that may be largely true – designed to slowly and quietly bleed dry your pockets – that is, unless you learn to drive it.

Republicans are eager to bleed dry the new regulatory beasts, new GOP members of Congress feel beholden to the Tea Party, and Speaker Boehner's decision to allow a wide-open amendment process on his party's budget proposal has put a spate of deep cuts forward that Democrats will never agree to, but that Boehner will be hard-pressed to abandon.