milk it
Squeeze every drop
To milk something is to extract value from it, like drawing milk from a cow.
To milk it means to prolong or exaggerate a situation for maximum benefit or attention: He wasn't that hurt, but he milked it for sympathy.
Someone milking an injury, a joke, or a moment of fame is squeezing out every possible advantage, often past the point of legitimacy.
- exploitNotable act or abuse
- squeezeFirm bilateral compression
- drainChannel for wastewater
- cash inConvert assets to money
- cash cowDependable income source
stretch · prolong · play for time · drag out · wring · run dry · take advantage · work the system · capitalize · udder · cow · extract · pump · overdo · abuse · leverage · eke out · bleed
- farm idiomsmake hay while the sun shines, cream of the crop, put the cart before the horse, till the cows come home, buy the farm
- showing offboasting, bragged, show off, bragging, boasted
exploitation duration
milk itlet it go
Cease fixating on something
move on · drop it · walk away · wrap it up · get over it