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piss away

Idioms  

  1. Squander, waste, as in They've pissed away a fortune on those horses. This term uses piss in the sense of “discharge something as though it were urine.” [Vulgar slang; first half of 1900s]

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“Now we’re going to have a bunch of wealthy families, and no one will be able to piss away that wealth, it will stay in the family for ever. This just locks in advantage.”

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2019

His physicians nevertheless helped him very well, and with store of lenitives and diuretic drugs made him piss away his pain.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

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