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down the drain

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Wasted or irretrievable.

    • Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, the, drain.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for down the drain. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA