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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi Anton -- on Jul 13 2020 at 22:50, you wrote:   
      
    AK>>> If I talk about myself, can I say: "I drained Jim   
    AK>>> everything I knew about his wife's love affair."  ;-)   
    DH>> You can -- I wouldn't -- it's not wrong,   
    DH>> just....unusual!   
      
   AS> I am sure it is wrong without an "of" before "everything."   
      
   Definitely wrong. My original had the "of"; your quote above seems to   
   have omitted it.   
      
   AS> Possible amendments:   
      
   AS>   a.  I drained Jim of everything *he* knew about his wife's   
   AS>       love affair.   
      
   AS>   b.  I drained from Jim everything *he* knew about...   
      
   AS>   c.  I let Jim drain me of everything I knew about...   
      
   AS>   d.  I divulged to Jim everything I knew about...   
   AS>       (now that's more like dumping!)   
      
   AS> "drain" seems to imply a certain effort on the part of the   
   AS> receiver (e.g. a vampyre), unless it verb is used in the   
   AS> narrow technical sense of the operation of a drainage   
   AS> system.   
      
   All These amendents are valid, but apart from d, the use of "drain"   
   would be unusual. Divulged, imo, has more of a sense of secrecy about   
   it, as if you knew you really shouldn't have been telling that to Jim.   
      
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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