英语词汇milk的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	milk
词源	milk. Milk has been used for more than 400 years to mean to dishonestly extract money from someone until there is nothing or very little left, as in “She milked him of everything he had.” It literally refers to the milking of animals. To milk a mine is to extract all or large portions of the ore from it after selling the mine.
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