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run dry
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run dry
see
well's run dry
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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run dry
verb
become empty of water; "The river runs dry in the summer"
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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