hollow out

"Tourism is a vital part of our local economy, but if we let it go too far in that direction, we end up with our communities being hollowed out," he says.

The soft bun is hollowed out and warmed after ordering, making it a “French dog,” as the locals call it.

A squeeze on funding over many years had made money tight – the forces “hollowed out”, according to Wallace.

In Belgium, they are hollowed out for boat races, and in Ludwigsburg, Germany, thousands of multi-coloured pumpkins are used to make seasonal sculpture parks.

Its Gotham as a right-wing talking point come to life, hollowed out by federal disinvestment and abandoned to the whims of street gangs, mobsters and the benevolent grace of a gazillionaire industrialist named Bruce Wayne.