Meaning of suck the air out of | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see suck, air, out.
2. To dominate or overwhelm, preventing anything or anyone else from receiving attention.
3. To destroy; to cause to become lifeless and empty.

Examples

““We spent time on learning facilitation skills in order to bring all voices into their conversations, to quiet those who tend to 'suck the air' out of ...”

“Modest about her achievements, Fletcher commented that “the play is the thing, not being a big movie star who sucks the air out of the room.””

“Some of that country just sucks the air out of you no matter how many times you've seen it.”

“It was this last possibility that sucked the air out of me. It was this that caused me to finally collapse back into the driver's seat of my car and tremble like I'd just come in soaking wet from a cold, hard rain, like I'd just started trying to extract the poison from my system all over again.”

“To hear that Mrs. Donnelly doesn't think I'm a good match for her son, and that Brennan wasn't thinking of me in those terms in the first place, sucks the air out of me like I'm a deflating balloon.”

“That kills a boxer: it sucks the air out of you – sucks the life out of you, and De Jesús did not have much life left in this fight.”

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