use up

use up idiom
  1. Consume completely, as in The kids used up all their money playing video games. [Late 1700s]
  2. Exhaust, tire out, as in I'm totally used up from digging that hole. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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