| 单词 | to go down the drain |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go (etc.) down the drain e. Colloquial figurative phrase, to go (etc.) down the drain, to disappear, get lost, vanish; to deteriorate, go to waste. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > be lost [verb (intransitive)] adrillc1350 slip1390 to carry away1604 to go (etc.) down the drain1930 1925 ‘F. Lonsdale’ Last of Mrs. Cheyney 10 It is she who closes the drain on them as they go down it on the Thursday.] 1930 W. S. Maugham Breadwinner i. 52 All his savings are gone down the drain. 1933 W. Chetham-Strode in Famous Plays of 1933 449 We're all so down the drain no one's got anything. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing 234 Others, dozens of Leontiev's colleagues, had..collapsed or made fatal mistakes and gone down the drain. 1952 ‘J. H. Chase’ Double Shuffle ix. 184 We had paid out good money to get those policies, and we couldn't afford to let them go down the drain. 1958 Listener 7 Aug. 196/1 A poor devil who goes down the drain before a temptation that he finds too strong. 1960 H. Pinter Dumb Waiter in Birthday Party, etc. 130 I thought these sheets didn't look too bright. I thought they ponged a bit... I told you things were going down the drain. 1961 Ann. Reg. 1960 471 It appeared that at least one donor country was realizing that aid could easily go down the drain. < as lemmas |
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