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extract (something) from (someone or something)

To remove something from someone or something. Mom will extract the real story from you in no time—you're a terrible liar. Can we extract that sound bite from the file?
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extract the urine (out of someone or something)

To mock, deride, tease, or ridicule someone or something. A humorously polite alternative to the phrase "take the piss (out of someone or something)." Primarily heard in UK. It took me a while to realize that all her brother's bizarre questions about America were really just his way of extracting the urine out of me. Jeff's always extracting the urine out of the way politicians behave in public. It always takes foreigners a while to come to terms with English people's penchant for extracting the urine.
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extract something from someone or something

to remove something from someone or something; to make someone or a group give something. We extracted the juice from the oranges. The police questioning Maggie extracted the truth from her.
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Getting back to the repair job at hand, I was able to fit and complete the extractor installation and all seemed well until I put more than three live rounds into the magazine tube.
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I put chrome silicon extractor springs in all mine as a habit now.
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If the case is not free to move then the extractor is tugging against an immovable or at least unwilling-to-move object.
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Dozier contracted Miami, Florida-based product management services leader Innovation Direct[TM] to represent the Extractor to potential licensees for a 2 year period.
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Mainero 2340 roll-type grain extractor
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In the lounge there is a door to the patio, while the kitchen has a range of modern units, work surfaces, a stainless steel single drainer sink, fridge and electric cooker with extractor hood.
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Pharmachem, Kearny, NJ, has completed a major expansion of its Avoca facility with the addition of a counter-current Crown extractor, which has a capacity of 12-18 tons per day.
Pharmachem expands Avoca extraction capability
A faulty extractor fan is being blamed for a blaze in a terraced house.
Faulty fan fire
Worldwide Computer Products News-22 September 2004-Verity announces the availability of Verity Extractor 1.0(C)1995-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com
Verity announces the availability of Verity Extractor 1.0
Since introducing its Target Data Extractor in 1994, Sensis has delivered over 75 TDXs for use by numerous government and military agencies around the world.
U.S. Air Force awards Sensis contract to expand radar coverage for homeland
The recall, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is because the extractor's strainer lid and basket can break apart.
HAMILTON BEACH GETS PATENT, RECALL
* buy one high-speed and one low-speed washer extractor. The latter can be dedicated to no-iron linens, while the former can handle everything, thus reducing total price.
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