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run dry to be all used completely We have been told the Social Security trust fund will run dry in a few more years because so many people will be retiring. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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His flow of language seemed at last to have run dry. A cog must have slipped or an oil- cup run dry, for the postman brought him one morning a short, thin envelope. Behind the most ancient part of Holborn, London, where certain gabled houses some centuries of age still stand looking on the public way, as if disconsolately looking for the Old Bourne that has long run dry, is a little nook composed of two irregular quadrangles, called Staple Inn. |
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