Idiom
pour down the drain
Meaning
To waste prior work by subsequent bad decisions.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Don't pour your hard work down the drain by quitting now.”
“If you ignore the project requirements, you will pour all your research down the drain.”
“By failing to secure the final signatures, the team allowed months of meticulous planning to be poured down the drain.”
Examples
simple
“Don't pour your hard work down the drain by quitting now.”
contextual
“If you ignore the project requirements, you will pour all your research down the drain.”
complex
“By failing to secure the final signatures, the team allowed months of meticulous planning to be poured down the drain.”
Key words
Related idioms
- Updated