run dry

Meaning

1. to stop supplying water; to be all used so that none is left

   The wells in most villages in the region have run dry.

In the movies · 6

• ...you never miss the water till the well runs dry.His Girl Friday1940
• Because their oceans rose and their rivers ran dry.Tenet2020
• So the creek runs dry sometimes and I gotta move my stock because of it.Shane1953
• I've run dry on sympathy.Death on the Nile2022
• ...and just to be sure, we're gonna do a dry run.Three Kings1999
• At the shrine of friendship never say die Let the wine of friendship never run dry Here's to you!Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert2010
• Return You have brought me To that moment when words run dry To that moment when speech disappears Into silence Silence I have come here Hardly knowing the reason why In my mind I've already imagined Our bodies entwining Defenseless and silent Now I am here with you No second thoughts I've decidedThe Phantom of the Opera2004

Learn it in full scenes

• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin

From the same entry

• milk dry
• not a dry eye in the house
• bleed dry
• high and dry
• be home and dry
• keep your powder dry
• squeeze dry
• dry off
• dry out
• dry up