go down the drain

Idioms  

1. see down the drain.

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Example Sentences

Summers: That’s a perfect metaphor that he is letting Twitter go down the drain.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

Some are easy, such as using cold water for laundry so that fewer tiny plastic fibers from your clothes go down the drain and end up in the ocean.

From Washington Post • Aug. 16, 2022

In the nine years we were together, I saw all savings go down the drain, even the savings we had made for our daughter.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2020

“The best thing to do is to not let it go down the drain, of course,” he said.

From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2019

Then she turned on the faucet and watched the black ashes go down the drain.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith