down the drain
(Australian English also down the gurgler) informalDefinition
C2 If work or money is or goes down the drain, it is spoiled or wasted: If the factory closes, that will be a million pounds' worth of investment down the drain.Wasting
(Definition of down the drain from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- boondoggle noun
- dissipate verb
- fritter sth away phrasal verb
- gluttonous adjective
- go down the gurgler idiom
- lose verb (NOT HAVE)
- prodigal adjective
- profligate adjective
- reinvent the wheel idiom
- squander verb
- throw good money after bad idiom
- toss sth away phrasal verb
- uneconomic adjective
- wastage noun
- waste not, want not idiom
- waste noun (BAD USE)
- waste verb (USE BADLY)
- wasted adjective (BADLY USED)
- wasteful adjective
- waster noun
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