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draw out

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draw someone out
on someone or something and draw someone out about someone or something; draw someone out to bring out someone's private thoughts about someone or something. I tried to draw him out on this matter, but he would not say any more. I tried to draw out the speaker, but she would not elaborate on what she had said. Fred wanted to draw out information about the company's plans, but the controller had nothing to say.
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draw somebody/something out also draw out somebody/something
to persuade someone to express their thoughts and feelings She was good at drawing out young people and getting them to talk about their dreams. She worked hard to draw out all the different opinions people had.
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draw something out also draw out something

1. to make something last longer than is usual or necessary I can't see any reason to draw the investigation out any longer. She paused to draw out the suspense.
2. to completely explain something Historians have to draw out, analyze, and judge the importance of the actions of others.
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A bystander said to him, "Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand.
Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.
At last I reached my own box, and had some corn; and after Robert had wrapped up my knees in wet cloths, he tied up my foot in a bran poultice, to draw out the heat and cleanse it before the horse-doctor saw it in the morning, and I managed to get myself down on the straw, and slept in spite of the pain.
 
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