tapped out

Kachuck’s line of credit is tapped out and he’s had to draw hundreds of thousands of dollars from his retirement account to keep the business afloat.

“I just felt that we were tapped out…And we checked three boxes at that point in time, big boxes, so that would have been, like, good enough,” Roberts said.

Are you tapped out for more of that or still game?

Halfway through, he ran to the piano and tapped out a “somber and slow” waltz idea, and on top of it a dark, coiling melody — with “something off but also maybe something romantic in it.”

But after five stressful innings and 84 pitches, Roberts deemed “he was tapped out” at the start of the sixth.