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rathole
[ rat-hohl ]
Idioms and Phrases
- down the rathole, for a worthless purpose or purposes:
seeing your inheritance disappear down the rathole.
Example Sentences
“Where have you led us, dwarf? My horse does not leave my side. Climb into this rathole, the rest of you. I shall guard Islimach myself.â€
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee called it a “rathole.â€
“I want to stop throwing money down that particular rathole,†he said at a Brookings Institution event earlier this month.
According to the DPIC, when Virginia goes, the death penalty will be dead in a majority of states, whether by legislative action, state court order or executive refusal to continue shoveling money down the rathole.
When I try to describe the civic and cultural value of architecture, I sometimes contrast entering Grand Central, the city’s great gateway, with the experience of arriving at the rathole that is Penn Station.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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