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This is not an idiom - it means exactly what it says. You put more of whatever the conversation is about into it than you got out of it. If you are talking about work, it would be a situation where you put more work into a thing than you got out of it, thus the situation was one where you wasted a lot of time. In a relationship, you would be putting more effort and attention into the relationship than you got out of it, thus you would be dating a selfish person who did not give you attention back.

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