down the drain
Australian English also down the gurgler informalC2 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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