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                            Phrase(s): pour money down the drain 
Fig. to waste money; to throw money away.  •  What a waste! Buying that old car is just pouring money down the drain.  •  Don’t buy any more of that low-quality merchandise. That’s just throwing money down the drain.
                        
                        
 
                        
                            McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs