Reverse Dictionary: RESOURCES

ADJECTIVES
► IN THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG remaining as a last resource or expedient → 1659

NOUNS
► ACE IN THE HOLE an especially effective final resource, esp. if deliberately held in reserve → 1908
► ACE UP ONE’S SLEEVE a hidden resource, ploy, or manoeuvre → 1927
► BEET-MASTER a person that helps in an emergency; a last resource → 1816 Sc.
► BEET-NEED a person or thing that helps in an emergency; a last resource → 1790 Eng. dial.
► BIG CASINO one’s best resource or asset → 1922 US sl.
► BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS all one’s effort or resources → World War II Amer. sl.
► COCUM advantage, luck, resource → M19 sl.
► FACULTY pecuniary ability, means, resources; possessions, property → 1382 obs.
► KITTY monetary resource → 1903 sl.
► LONG PURSE a purse containing plenty of money; plenty of money, abundant wealth or resources → 1650 colloq.
​► ONLY STICK LEFT IN ONE’S HEDGE, THE one’s only resource → 1644
► SHOT IN ONE’S LOCKER a final resource → 1894 US nautical sl.

VERBS
► BLEED SOMEONE DRY to drain someone of wealth or resources → 1982 UK sl.
► BLEED WHITE to cause someone hardship by cutting all their supplies off, to drain completely of resources → 1898
► GO THE LENGTH OF ONE’S TETHER to use up all one’s resources; to exhaust one’s means → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► PERISH THE PACK to squander one’s fortune, to be or become destitute through extravagance, to be at the end of one’s resources → 1808 Sc.
► PICKLE IN ONE’S OWN POKE-NOOK to rely on one’s own resources (poke-nook = a bottom corner of a bag, sack, etc.) → a1628 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RUN ONE’S TETHER to come to the end of one’s resources → 1879 Sc.
► SCRAPE THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL to use one’s last and worst resources; to be forced to desperate measures → 1942 Amer. sl.
► SUCK THE BLOOD OF to exhaust the resources of, to drain the life out of → 1583
► TOOM ONE’S WALLET to come to the end of one’s store or resources → 1890 Sc.