squeeze the pips

verb

To wring all available resources out of something.

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Meanings

verbsqueeze the pips (third-person singular simple present squeezes the pips, present participle squeezing the pips, simple past and past participle squeezed the pips)

present singular third person squeezes the pips · participle present squeezing the pips · participle past squeezed the pips · past squeezed the pips

  1. To wring all available resources out of something.

    […] he had not been able to grab and squeeze the pips of the rich, so to speak, and catch and use their juice for his own.

    2011, Gill Knox, The Legacy of the Talents, page 86
    1 more example

    The Empire disintegrated as the money holding it together ran out. Except the really poor bits who wanted to squeeze the pips to get a cash injection from the 'Mother Country' by screaming 'Imperialism' at the politicians that had been given a politically correct indoctrination (sorry, education).

    2012, Harvey Beach, Apocalypse Overture, page 11
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