Verb
To enervate or make tired; to sap the strength or vitality of.
This job has really taken it out of me.
To exact payment from; to punish.
They'll take it out of me one way or another.
I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while. Groucho Marx
My neighbour asked if he could use my lawnmower and I told him of course he could, so long as he didn't take it out of my garden. Eric Morecambe
I wouldn't have ate it, only I'm too lady-like to take it out of my mouth. George Bernard Shaw
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box. Brian Setzer
I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life? The guy says he has seventeen kids and I say: "I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally"? I never said that. Groucho Marx
For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself! As for the others, the irony of facts shall take it out of their hands, and make fools of them in downright earnest, ere the farce be over. Robert Louis Stevenson