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词汇 to-the-dregs
释义 to the dregs
collocation
If you drink something to the dregs, you drink all of it:
He drained his glass to the dregs and asked for another.
She had drunk her evening cocoa to its dregs.
often disapproving
until only very few parts of something are left, often the worst parts:
By this time the company was down to the dregs of its cash reserves.
Now the team has been reduced to the dregs.
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dregs
She had drunk her coffee down to the dregs.
Throwing back his head, he drained the bottle to the dregs.
The cup would be drunk to the dregs, whirled three times in the left hand and upended, leaving a random pattern of tea leaves at the base.
We would not go home until every bottle had been emptied to the dregs.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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all done
all over
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dust
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in the canidiom
out
over
over and done withphrase
see the last of something/someoneidiom
sunset
through
to the lastidiom
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