• suck all the air out of

suck all the air out of (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (alt form, suck the air out of, lang=en)
• (&lit, suck, all, air, out, lang=en)
• To dominate or overwhelm.
• * (quote-book, year=2015, title=A Purpose Ridden, author=Ryan Correy, ISBN=1771600659, passage=The gravity of our situation '''sucks all the air out of''' the truck cab. I'm caught in a moment of deep reflection.)
• * (quote-book, year=2015, title=Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis, author=Sandra Buechler , ISBN=1317594053, passage=No one ever understands Luella's impact. It is as though she '''sucks all the air out of''' a room. )
• * (quote-book, year=2016, title=The Election of the Century, author=Stephen J. Wayne, ISBN=1315499444, passage=“It makes sense, because if he [Clinton] appears with Gore, it just '''sucks all the air out of''' everything; it's all people want to talk about," Carville said.)
• To destroy.
• * (quote-book, year=2008, title=The Bureaucrat of Last Resort, author=Eric Rosenblatt, page=208, ISBN=0595485626, passage=But his next words '''sucked all the air out of''' my rationalizations.)
• * (quote-book, year=2009, title=Cinematography for Directors, author=Jacqueline B Frost, page=36, ISBN=1615930191, passage=You've got to be flexible — otherwise it '''sucks all the air out of''' the movie, and you've seen the movies that feel like a filmed storyboard.)
• * (quote-book, year=2014, title=Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry, author=William Logan, page=143, ISBN=0231537239, passage=Now he's too eager for the graveyard pun or, if he's trying too hard, the Billy Collins premise that '''sucks all the air out of''' a poem. )