shoot one's wad
Verb
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Verb
shoot one's wad
- (slang) To expend all of one's resources or efforts; to express all the arguments or ideas which one has.
- 1985 May 26, Richard Witkin, "Pilots and United halt talks seeking strike's end ↗," New York Times (retrieved 21 August 2013):
- Negotiations between United Airlines and striking pilots broke off yesterday after the two sides . . . became deadlocked over back-to-work provisions. . . . Ralph Colliander, a board mediator, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying: "We have shot our wad. You get burnt up once in a while."
- 1993, Steve Martini, Compelling Evidence, ISBN 9781101563939, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=ggp1yuLk2tYC&pg=PT384&dq=%22shot+their+wad%22+subject:%22fiction%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=EaoVUvTdD6m62wWDgoGABg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAzgU#v=onepage&q=%22shot%20their%20wad%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false (Google preview)]:
- When the old hair falls out, new hair begins to replace it, and the cycle starts again, though not for Harry, who says his follicles have shot their wad.
- 2004, Stephen Goodwin, Breaking Her Fall, ISBN 9780156029698, [http://books.google.ca/books?id=TnVV7eE2S50C&pg=PA179&dq=%22shot+their+wad%22+subject:%22fiction%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=jKgVUtXtHaPW2gXFo4HQAw&ved=0CGEQ6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=%22shot%20their%20wad%22%20subject%3A%22fiction%22&f=false page 179 (Google preview)]:
- I have a special fondness for all late summer bloomers since so many gardens, and all the fancy perennial gardens, have shot their wad by then.
- 1985 May 26, Richard Witkin, "Pilots and United halt talks seeking strike's end ↗," New York Times (retrieved 21 August 2013):
- (slang) To spend all of one's money.
- 1982 Oct. 31, Louise M. Forscher, "Letter to Editor: Lake District ↗," New York Times (retrieved 21 August 2013):
- During the summer of 1965 my two daughters and I, traveling on a very limited budget, shot our wad at Sharrow Bay - and never regretted a penny of it.
- 1982 Oct. 31, Louise M. Forscher, "Letter to Editor: Lake District ↗," New York Times (retrieved 21 August 2013):
- (slang, vulgar, of a man) To ejaculate.
- (spend all one's money) blow one's wad
- (expend all one's resources) blow one's load, blow one's wad, shoot one's bolt
- (ejaculate) blow one's wad, shoot one's load, see Thesaurus:ejaculate
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