If the government were to remove the phones, the transportation, the energy, the subsidies, it would dry up.

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Furthermore, in the unlikely event that the program was successful in curtailing the consumption of "bad" foods, the revenues that support it would dry up.

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He feared it would dry up private charity.

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Companies like Exxon Mobil, Wyeth and Pfizer--which tend to rely on single patents for their products--are worried the law would make it easier for patents to be challenged and thus would dry up funding for research.

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The more interesting question is what would happen when it is not offers that dry up, but bids.

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In the week following the tsunami, it became clear that the pond was running dry, meaning that fuel rods would have heated up.

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This process, in turn, would have heated up the area outside the plug, vaporizing icy material and turning it into dry matter.

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