单词	rathole
释义	rathole /ˈrathəʊl / noun 1 informal A cramped or squalid room or building: a rathole where a friend lived until her place was broken into for the seventeenth time... And not just ratholes; ratholes without a washing machine or air conditioning. The illness is key to the film's basic structure, careening between Hughes's high-flying grandiose business exploits and the suffocating rathole of his phobic hell. I've looked at a number of places, both share situations and solo one-bedrooms, and I've discovered that lots of folks pay a whole lot of money to live in ratholes. 2North American informal Used to refer to the waste of money or resources: pouring our assets down the rathole of military expenditure... ‘If taxpayers were aware that a good chunk of their taxes were going down the rathole into these subsidies, they'd be marching on the Mall,’ said Myers in an interview. This is not to say that more money might not make the difference, but the system is not binary, and we could well just be pouring more US money down a bottomless rathole. It's rather appropriate that the logo for Disney is a mouse, because The Walt Disney Company this week announced its intention to throw money down a rathole. 3(In the oil industry) a shallow hole drilled near a well to accommodate the drill string joint when not in use. 3.1A small hole drilled at the bottom of a larger hole. verb [with object] North American informal Hide (money or goods), typically as part of a deception: he had ratholed the nine thousand that nobody could find
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