- down the drain/tube
- Lost, wasted.► “When the Interstate Commerce Commission decided against allowing a Southern Pacific (SP)– Santa Fe merger, SP was close to going down the drain.” (Railway Age, Nov. 1994, p. 22)
American business jargon. 2014.
down the drain/tube
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go down the drain — {v. phr.} To be lost or wasted forever. * /If he doesn t pass the bar examination tomorrow, his best efforts to become a lawyer will go down the drain./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go down the drain — {v. phr.} To be lost or wasted forever. * /If he doesn t pass the bar examination tomorrow, his best efforts to become a lawyer will go down the drain./ … Dictionary of American idioms
go down the tube — go down the drain, become worthless … English contemporary dictionary
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