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run dry (В.И.Макаров); sputter out; run its course (SigGolfer); run out of steam (Bullfinch); reach one's limits (anyname1); exhaust itself (anyname1); spend oneself (NGGM); peter out (A year after the speech, the US and Russia signed the New Start agreement, restricting both sides to 1,550 deployed strategic warheads and bombs, down by about 30% from previously agreed limits. However, the "Prague agenda" petered out. Aspirations to cut the strategic stockpile by another third, unilaterally if necessary, were abandoned in the face of congressional resistance, North Korea's growing nuclear weapons programme and worsening relations with Russia.  theguardian.com eugenealper) |
| Игорь Миг |
outlive; run one's course; be over for good; become obsolete (см. outlive its usefulness); be obsolete |
| fig. |
exhaust possibilities (Mikhail11) |
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run dry (о писателе В.И.Макаров) |
| idiom. |
shoot one's bolt (And one had to remember that most of the bimbos to whom Roberta Wickham had been giving the bird through the years had been of the huntin', shootin' and fishin' type, fellows who had more or less shot their bolt after saying ‘Eh, what?' and slapping their leg with a hunting crop. Kipper must have come as a nice change. (P.G. Wodehouse) ART Vancouver) |
