squeeze the pips

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v.
  1. 1.

    To wring all available resources out of something.

    […] he had not been able to grab and squeeze the pips of the rich, so to speak, and catch and use their juice for his own.

    The Empire disintegrated as the money holding it together ran out. Except the really poor bits who wanted to squeeze the pips to get a cash injection from the 'Mother Country' by screaming 'Imperialism' at the politicians that had been given a politically correct indoctrination (sorry, education).