suck an orange
all Lombard Street to a China orange
great wealth against one ordinary object
virtual certainty – dated
Lombard Street in London was originally occupied by bankers from Lombardy and it still contains a number of London's principal banks. This idiom dates from the early 19th century, but the use of a China orange to mean a worthless thing is recorded earlier.
squeeze an orange = suck an orange
take all that is profitable out of something
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