Meaning of drain the dragon | Babel Free
Examples
“Officer O'Bannion began to have⟳ a terrible yet weirdly plausible idea: that this strange little man had killed his wife with a pair of hedge-clippers and then somehow dissolved her body with drain-cleaner—and all because she wouldn't get⟳ the hell out of the bathroom while he was trying to drain the dragon.”
“Have⟳ the squares ruined Wigstock? Will it go the way of the Halloween parade, with Wall Street trainees draining the dragon on Christopher Street?”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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