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Phrase(s): use something up
to consume or use all of something. • Use the flour up. I have more in the cupboard. • Use up every bit of it. Go ahead., Phrase(s): use someone up
Fig. to use all the effort or talent a person has. • His career simply used him up. • I used myself up. I’m done. I can’t function anymore.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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1. Consume completely, as in The kids used up all their money playing video games. [Late 1700s] 2. Exhaust, tire out, as in I'm totally used up from digging that hole. [Colloquial; mid-1800s]
American Heritage Idioms