Radit Usque ad Cutem.

He fleeced him to the skin; he sucked him dry. He shaved off all his hair (instead of only trimming it).

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Rack and Ruin
Racket
Racy
Racy Style
Radcliffe Library (Oxford)
Radegaste
Radegund
Radevore
Radical
Radiometer
Radit Usque ad Cutem
Rag
Rag (The)
Rag-water
Rags of Antisthenes
Rags and Jags
Ragamuffin (French, maroufle)
Ragged Robin
Raghu
Ragman Roll
Ragnarok [twilight of the gods]