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单词 fritter away
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fritter away

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Squander or waste little by little; wear down gradually. For example, She frittered away her salary on odds and ends and saved nothing. This expression was first recorded in Alexander Pope's Dunciad (1728): “How prologues into prefaces decay, And these to notes are fritter'd quite away.”

Words nearby fritter away

frithstool, fritillaria, fritillary, frittata, fritter, fritter away, fritto misto, fritz, Friuli, Friulian, Friuli-Venezia Giulia
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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