suck all the air out of
English
Verb
suck all the air out of (third-person singular simple present sucks all the air out of, present participle sucking all the air out of, simple past and past participle sucked all the air out of)
- Alternative form of suck the air out of
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see suck, all, air, out.
- To dominate or overwhelm.
- 2015, Ryan Correy, A Purpose Ridden, →ISBN:
- The gravity of our situation sucks all the air out of the truck cab. I'm caught in a moment of deep reflection.
- 2015, Sandra Buechler, Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis, →ISBN:
- No one ever understands Luella's impact. It is as though she sucks all the air out of a room.
- 2016, Stephen J. Wayne, The Election of the Century, →ISBN:
- “It makes sense, because if he [Clinton] appears with Gore, it just sucks all the air out of everything; it's all people want to talk about," Carville said.
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- To destroy.
- 2008, Eric Rosenblatt, The Bureaucrat of Last Resort, →ISBN, page 208:
- But his next words sucked all the air out of my rationalizations.
- 2009, Jacqueline B Frost, Cinematography for Directors, →ISBN, page 36:
- You've got to be flexible — otherwise it sucks all the air out of the movie, and you've seen the movies that feel like a filmed storyboard.
- 2014, William Logan, Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure: The Dirty Art of Poetry, →ISBN, page 143:
- Now he's too eager for the graveyard pun or, if he's trying too hard, the Billy Collins premise that sucks all the air out of a poem.
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