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take it out of one
Idioms and Phrases
Exhaust or fatigue one, as in This construction job really takes it out of me . This idiom alludes to depleting one's energy. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
“It allows us to build that financial, for lack of a better term, war chest over the course of multiple fiscal years versus having to take it out of one fiscal year,” Hasseltine told the University of Maryland’s Capital News Service.
“You take it out of one source, and you dump into another source, and it’s just weird to me,” said Martens, who is director of water operations for Atlantic Municipal Utilities.
You feel abused and bruised; how scenes take it out of one, you think resentfully, and just here you pause, for there are footsteps on the stairs.
He felt tired in every limb, and would never have believed that waiting and standing about could take it out of one to such an extent.
And the Cambridge business did take it out of one most tremendously.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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