🗓️ Idiom: Bleed Cash (v)
💬 Meaning
- To be rapidly losing a large amount of money, especially in a business context.
- To be spending or losing more money than is being earned, often in a damaging or unsustainable way.
🧠 Example Sentences
- The startup was bleeding cash and had only a few months of runway left.
- If the company keeps bleeding cash like this, it won’t survive the year.
- They had to cut costs drastically because they were bleeding cash.
🏛️ Origin
This idiom draws a parallel to physical bleeding of blood from the body implying serious financial harm. Just as excessive blood loss can be fatal to a person, excessive cash loss can be fatal to a business.
📝 Practice Exercises
1. Fill in the blank:
Due to poor sales and high overheads, the company was __________.
Answer
bleeding cash
2. Choose the correct meaning of “bleeding cash”:
A) Making a steady profit
B) Losing money at a rapid rate
C) Saving large amounts of money
Answer
B) Losing money at a rapid rate
3. Rewrite the sentence using: Bleed Cash
“The business was losing a lot of money every day.”
Answer
The business was bleeding cash every day.
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Rob is a CELTA qualified English teacher with 15 years of international experience. He has a BSc and PGDip from Loughborough and St Andrews universities in the UK. He has taught in Thailand and Saudi Arabia and now works with professionals worldwide.
