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squeeze the pips en · VERB
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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: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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