Idiom
go down the drain
Meaning
Synonym of go down the toilet: to fail.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“All my hard work went down the drain.”
“The project failed, and months of careful planning went down the drain.”
“Without proper funding, the ambitious startup saw its years of research and development go down the drain overnight.”
Examples
simple
“All my hard work went down the drain.”
contextual
“The project failed, and months of careful planning went down the drain.”
complex
“Without proper funding, the ambitious startup saw its years of research and development go down the drain overnight.”
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