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单词 down the drain
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down the drain

Australian English also down the gurgler informal

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 dollars' worth of investment down the drain.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Wasting

  • boondoggle
  • dissipate
  • fritter
  • fritter sth away
  • gluttonous
  • lose
  • misspend
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • reinvent
  • reinvent the wheel idiom
  • squander
  • throw
  • toss
  • wastage
  • waste
  • waste not, want not idiom
  • wasted
  • wasteful
  • waster

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down the drain

also down the toilet

wasted or lost:

I can’t believe it’s broken already – well, there’s seventy bucks down the drain.
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