Brewer's: Cleaned Out

Impoverished of everything. De Quincey says that Richard Bentley, after his lawsuit with Dr. Colbatch, “must have been pretty well cleaned out.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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